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SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. 



[Copyright 1880, by Hknry Meyrick.] 



Santa Cruz and Monterey 



ILLUSTRATED HAHD-BOOK. 



Compiled by HENRY MEYEICK. 



INTRODUCTORY. 

The object of this little book is to supply really reliable informa- 
tion as to the advantages and enjoyments to be found on a bit of 
sheltered bay coast, four hours from San Francisco, easily accessible 
by two railroads and numerous steamers, at moderate fares. 

The labor of the compiler has been a great pleasure ; fortunate in 
finding kind and valuable assistance from the best authorities, and 
fortunate, above all, in his material, knowing that, in attempting to 
describe the beauties and advantages of Santa Cruz and Monterey, 
he can well afford to understate his case, and so avoid all possible 
risk of disappointing even the most exacting of readers who may 
afterwards visit either the " Long Branch " or the " Newport " of the 
Pacific. The shortcomings of this first edition are numerous ; many 
important points have been merely glanced at, some overlooked 
altogether, but the little book will be found absolutely free from 
intentional exaggeration or distortion of facts. 

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. 

Santa Cruz County, of which the City of Santa Cruz is the county 
seat, has an area of a little over 300,000 acres, about one-third being 
fertile valley, plateau and rolling hill land, and at least 40,000 acres 
bottom land of the very richest description. 

The county has some fifty miles of coast along the ocean and the 
Bay of Monterey, running back to the summits of the Santa Cruz 
range of mountains, and forming an amphitheatre of almost perfect 
aspect, facing the sea on the south and protected from N. W. to E. 
by high, well wooded hills, the highest point, Loma Prieta, some 



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4,000 feet above the sea ; the whole area being in full enjoyment of 
a S. S. E. to W. exposure. 

High ridges and small valleys, gorges and canons run down from 
the mountains, partly clothed in redwood, pine, fir and various ever- 
greens, as well as oak, maple and many other varieties of deciduous 
trees. 

Scattered through this mountain forest region, are many lumber 
mills and small agricultural settlements, many of the latter more 
or less devoted to fruit and wine growing. .Most of the orchards 
and vineyards are still in their infancy, but every one gives proof 
that all the valuable fruits of temperate and semi-tropical latitudes 
will grow in great perfection on these hill-sides, and may, very 
soon, cover sufficient area to warrant the starting of large fruit 
canning and drying establishments, to supply remote and 
less-favored spots with fruit of maximum excellence at minimum 
prices. Railroad and other facilities of transport are now being 
rapidly improved, and soon fresh fruit of early varieties and finest 
quality can be rushed away to the Eastern States, long before they 
can be ripened there, finding ready market and obtaining good 
prices, from the richest community the world has ever known, now 
being developed in the United States of America. 

Countless streams run down from these sylvan regions, emptying 
into the ocean and bay close to Santa Cruz, affording good facilities 
for the construction of roads along their valleys, so that the city has 
comparatively easy access to vast stores of valuable timber and fuel 
for manufacturing purposes ; also, to numerous quarries of a superior 
limestone, of which is made the very finest lime known to commerce; 
and to forests of " tan-bark " oak, and of various trees, from which 
the finest charcoal, suitable for gunpowder making and other pur- 
poses, can be produced. 

All this seaward slope is verdant and crop-producing, even in the ' 
driest seasons, and, in this respect; differs entirely from the Santa 
Clara slope, on the other or inland side of the mountains. 

Intending settlers would do well to study this important point, and 
look for southern seaward exposures, protected, if possible, from the 
drying heats and winds of the inland valleys with N.W. to N.E. 
exposures. At present, excellent farms in sunny situations, with 
ample supplies of timber and water, producing ' ! 'good crops every season 
without irrigation" many of them with more or less excellent land, 
still uncleared, can be bought at prices which must prove profitable 
to the judicious investor. Some portions of such land, still partially 



4 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

covered with brush, will amply repay clearing and produce in great 
perfection the finest fruits, tomatoes, early potatoes, etc., frost being 
almost unknown in many such locations. 

These hill-side farms produce wheat, barley, oats, corn, potatoes, 
flax, sweet potatoes, hops, apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, 
almonds, grapes, and all the small fruits, in perfection and abund- 
ance, while fine specimens of orange and lemon trees, figs and olives 
are to be found in sheltered spots round almost every homestead, 
proving the extraordinary capacity of both soil and climate ; and the 
best experience goes to show that, for people of limited capital, this 
class of mixed farming on a moderate scale is not only the safest, but 
also the most profitable on the average, and surely such fair prospects 
of profit amid such surroundings, where outdoor occupation is a 
luxury at all seasons of the year, ought to satisfy the most fastidious 
searcher after a home. For the produce of such a farm Santa Cruz 





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"Anxious Moments— Waiting for a Roller." 

itself furnishes a good market, especially in the summer season, when 
its 10,000 or more visitors create quite a demand for first-class small 
farm produce of every description, and, in this district, the owner of 
the little farm, well tilled, who "feeds off" a good proportion of his 
produce, and sends it to this home market in the forms of beef, pork, 
milk, butter, poultry, eggs and fruit, will be easier in mind and pocket 
than the big farmer who goes in for growing grain, or any exclusive 
crop, by the i?iile. 

PAJARO VALLEY. 

The richest land in the country is to be found in the valley of the 
Pajaro river, which forms the southern boundary of the county. 

This valley, over twelve miles long and seven miles wide, may be 
called garden land, of the richest and deepest kind, some portions 
seeming still inexhaustible after twenty-five years of cultivation. Of 
course, such land would command good prices in almost any loca- 
tion, but this little happy valley is situated close to the sea, with a 



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railroad running right through it, and is made up of beautiful 
fields and orchards, deep alluvial bottoms and fertile hill-sides ; 
winding streams fringed with trees ; several beautiful lakelets, like 
diamonds set in emerald • a range of mountains to the north, and 
the dancing surf to the south ■ while the fertility of the soil is proof 
against the* driest seasons. 

CITY OF SANTA CRUZ. 

The city of Santa Cruz is situated close to the 37th parallel of N. 
latitude, looking out on the bay of Monterey and the Pacific Ocean. 

The big Panama steamers may often be seen passing, and Monte- 
rey is generally visible, twenty miles across the bay, looking, in clear 
w r eather and early morning, more like five miles distant, with its 
white beach shining in the sun, and a few of its houses visible through 
a glass. Behind Monterey looms up the Santa Lucia range of moun- 
tains, 3,000 to 4,000 feet high, and to the left, or south-east, the 
Gabilan mountains stand in bold relief, guarding, as it were, the 
entrance to the Salinas river from the bay of Monterey. Sixty 
miles to the east, and beyond the Pajaro valley, are seen the Pacheco 
and other peaks in the Mount Diablo range. To the north-east and 
twenty miles distant, stands Mount Bache, (" Loma Prieta,") the high- 
est point in the Santa Cruz mountains. 

Leaving the little city and mounting the hills in any direction the 
scene changes and enlarges every few yards, and from any fair emi- 
nence, looking out to sea and up and down the coast to the right and 
left, we feast our eyes on the green slope, dotted with spreading live 
oaks, clustering orchards and white farm houses, while directly below 
us lies the little city* looking like some New England town washed 
ashore on this distant coast, every object in its tree lined streets dis- 
tinctly visible ; its half dozen churches, its splendid public school 
house, with several other handsome public buildings, and its hun- 
dreds, approaching thousands, of happy looking homes, each one 
separate and distinct and fairly embowered in roses and flowering 
shrubs, roses in bushes, roses in trees, roses in clumps, roses in 
hedges, roses in arcades, roses, roses everywhere and blooming al- 
most every month in the year. For roses, Santa Cruz is certainly 
the Nice and Mentone of the Pacific, and at least one Italian 
traveller has pronounced the combination of alpine, marine and 
woodland scenery on this coast to be quite equal to any part of the 
celebrated Corniche Road. 

The sidewalk on Pacific avenue, the main street of Santa Cruz, is 



6 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

almost 20 feet wide, and nearly a mile long from the Post-office to the 
bathing beach, and along this sidewalk, during the next few Summers, 
a large percentage of the very best people in California must certainly 
promenade more or less. 

SANTA CRUZ BEACH. 

The Bathing Beach is of the finest sand, almost level, smooth 
and clean to perfection ; there are good bath-houses, furnishing 




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'Going for a Header." 

bathers with everything necessary for bathing, and many luxuries and 
comforts. Sunny dressing rooms, bathing costumes of the latest, 
most becoming and comfortable styles, and obliging attendants 
always in readiness to assist bathers, and serve hot coffee or other 
light refreshments if desired. The temperature of the surf during 
the bathing season is 5 8° to 62°, while at Santa Barbara it is 6o° to 
66°, the variation being exactly proportionate to the difference in 
the atmospheric temperature of the two places. 

CLIMATE OF SANTA CRUZ. 

While the climate is mild, it is really bracing and invigorating, in 
fact stimulating, to a considerable degree ; it is comparatively free 
from the colder fogs and higher winds of San Francisco. It will 
be found warm and dry enough to compel but little or no confine- 
ment in doors, and while it is remarkably free from extremes of 
heat and cold, (highest temperature in three years, 88°; lowest, 31 ,) 
it has just sufficient range of temperature to give the zest of variety 
without the violent changes which endanger health by shocking the 
vital system — no excess of heat, fostering indolence, or of warm 
humidity, relaxing and debilitating. 

Above all, never a hot night, a good blanket being the last but 
not the least enjoyment of a happy day in Santa Cruz County at any 



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season of the year — no searing frosts, no scorching heats, no 
tempests. 

" Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live, 
Were worth the best joy that life elsewhere can give." 

All the best attributes of fruitful, sunny, salubrious California are 
certainly to be found on the shores of the Bay of Monterey. 

WINDS. 

The cool dry '" trade winds" that blow from the northwest pretty 
constantly during the summer months, pass Santa Cruz a little to 
seaward, across the Bay and up the Salinas Valley. The timber- 
covered mountains, on the northerly side, break and temper these 
winds, while the strong air-current, passing a mile or two outside, 
produces an eddy, near the center of which, during a great part of 
time, stands the City of Santa Cruz. These important points, the 
movements of the air-currents, have been closely observed by Prof. 
Davidson of the Coast Survey, These circling currents are always 
mild, warmed by the land and sun, and they are highly favorable to 
vegetation. Santa Barbara has the advantage of similar currents. 

With a strong " nor' wester " blowing down the Pacific, its currents 
just touching the capes and promontories, the " white caps " distinct- 
ly visible a mile or two outside, we find Santa Cruz and its entire 
bay shore enjoying, if not a perfect calm, at most a mild, gentle 
breeze. Of course, at certain seasons, generally preceding or during 
heavy rains, Santa Cruz gets a good, steady, wholesome and pleasant 
blow, usually from the S. or S. E., but the general climate will be 
found exactly as described, quite free from excessive or bad winds, 
especially such as the siroccos which blow from the deserts eastward ; 
indeed they are seldom felt north of Santa Barbara, certainly never 
on the bay of Monterey. 

FOGS. 

The morning fogs, which are not unusual during the early summer 
season, are caused by a cold current of air penetrating a warm one, 
or vice versa, the vapor contained in the warmer body of air is con- 
densed, becoming cloud on or near the surface of the earth ; the 
condensation of this vapor, giving out its heat, usually renders this 
so called fog mild in temperature, and, to most people, pleasant and 
refreshing. It is really not fog af all, but cloud or pure white mist, 
warmer and much less wetting than a " Scotch mist," and differing 



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entirely from the true British fog, facetiously spelled ' ( smog," because 
always colored and strongly impregnated with smoke, a mixture as un- 
wholesome as it is unpleasant. Santa Cruz summer fog is refreshing 
alike to animal and vegetable life, bringing healthful roses to the 
cheeks of beauty, and preserving the verdure of the surrounding 
hill-sides through a great part of the summer, long after higher tem- 
peratures and drier atmospheres have parched up all vegetation in 
the inland valleys. 

As soon as the temperature of the different bodies of air are equal- 
ized, the mist disappears, leaving all nature refreshed by the moisture, 
and prepared to enjoy thoroughly the bright and balmy sunshine 
which always follows. 

During almost every night succeeding a hot day, this delicious sea 
mist sets in, enwrapping us perhaps from midnight until eight or nine 
o'clock in the morning, cooling, moistening, and refreshing every- 
thing out of doors. 

SEA BATHING SEASON. 

The fashionable season at Santa Cruz is from about the istof May 
to the ist of October, but the enjoyable season, the season of good 
climate, and even of sea bathing, may be said to last from the ist 




'Just once More!" 



day of January to the 31st day of December inclusive. In stormy 
winters the sea bathing is more uncertain than in the summer 
months ; for a few days, or sometimes for a week or two, the rough- 



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ness of the sea or heavy rains may interfere with the surf bather, 
but as good and enjoyable bathing may often be had in midwinter as 
at midsummer, and the air and water will both be found as pleasant 
on many days in March and November as in any months of the 
year. 

The extreme variation between the winter and summer tempera- 
ture of the surf is only a few degrees, so there is much less difference 
between the temperatures of the air and the water in winter than 
in summer, which sensibly reduces the shock of the first plunge. 

HEALTH. 

A few extracts from the report of an experienced physician, pub- 
lished in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 14, Vol. 54, 




* 9 

"Sometimes Three ARE Company." 

may not be out of place here. After describing the varieties of soil 
and the geological formations, he says : " There are many mineral 
springs in these mountains, some already having a good reputation 
for medicinal virtues ; there is generally a large percentage of lime, 
sodium and iron, in the form of sulphates and carbonates ; some 
have, in addition to a small quantity of soda, borax and iron, what 
are called ' magnetic ' properties, probably obtained by passing over 
magnetic iron ore. These latter springs must be considered valuable 
on account of their stimulating and tonic effects. Steel implements 
become magnetic by remaining a short time in the water. Soft, 
clear, cold water, almost free from solutions, is abundant almost 
everywhere in this region, issuing often in large springs from the 
mountain sides. Aside from all other tests of climatic character — 
character of more value than thermometer, hygrometer, wind or rain 
gauges, is the vegetation of a country that will tell us what the cli- 
mate is now and what it has been in ages past. Nearly all this re- 
gion is covered with a luxurious vegetation. The number of species 



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included in this small area is comparatively very large. There are 
about fifty species of what might be called forest trees. Some of 
these trees measure twenty feet in diameter and three hundred feet 
in height, and are one thousand to eighteen hundred years old. A 
large proportion are evergreen, and they include redwood, pine, fir, 
oak, poplar, alder, buckthorn, dogwood, maple, buckeye, madrona, 
manzanita, sycamore, bay tree, etc. These give an index to the other 
lesser vegetation. 




"Looking out to Sea through the Natural Bridge, Santa Cruz." 

The mean annual temperature is 59.5° F., and the months of De- 
cember, January and February give a mean of 52 , while July, Au- 
gust and September give a mean of 62 F. With occasional excep- 
tions, the same kind of clothing may be worn all the year round with- 
out discomfort. The mean annual rainfall is twenty-three inches, 
and from one-third to one-half more rain falls near the summits of 
the mountains than at the sea level ; hence, the springs do not be- 
come dry. Snow falls on these summits in some winters, more or 
less, but seldom at any place in the county does the thermometer 
fall as low as 30 F. 



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Humidity is greatest at the beach or sea level, gradually diminish- 
ing as we go inland, so one may select almost any degree of moist- 
ure. The wind that blows ill or good, that motion of the air, fickle 
and inconstant, yet so important to invalids, deserves particular men- 
tion in connection with this locality. 

From April to November we are more or less subject to the influ- 
ence of the N.W. trade winds, accompanying the Japan ocean 




"A Quartette." 

current, which come down the coast from the direction of the 
Aleutian Islands, including the circuit of Alaska, and which help to- 
create an even temperature of about 42 ° F. for a long distance above 
or north of the Farralone Islands, but when they come within the 
latitude of the Bay of Monterey these air currents expand more 
rapidly, and, as their moisture has been mostly precipitated in the 
north, they now, by reason of expansion, take up from the region 
over which they pass the moisture from water, vegetation and air, 
and with them is borne along a large proportion of the fresh salt sea 
air, or watery vapor of these southern latitudes, hence a humid or 
sultry atmosphere cannot exist within the circuit of this air -current. 
As the Pacific Coast, from Puget Sound to the " Golden Gate," is 
an almost closed wall parallel with the flow of the Japan Current,, 
having few wind gaps, the stream of air is compressed and flows 
with considerable rapidity. When a gate or opening occurs, the cur- 
rent is forced through and spreads out on either side, mingling with 
the land air. This double motion sets up a series of eddying cur- 
rents, so that when, on the ocean, the north-westerly wind is tossing 
the "white caps" about, inland there is an opposite current mildly 



12 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

flowing in circuits, according to the conformation of the land, and 
this eddying current is mild and genial and refreshing — an air 
delightful to breathe. It carries enough ozone to purify the little 
basins, valleys and recesses along the coast, and has force enough to 
sweep away any malaria, yet so mild as not to irritate the most sensi- 
tive lungs. 

In such a climate epidemics are rare and of short duration. Im- 
mediately on the coast, catarrhal affections prevail at times, and 
consumptives with strong catarrhal tendencies will do well to keep 
a little inland at a good elevation, say 1,200 to 2,000 feet above the 
sea, and in winter, when southerly winds prevail, living down near 
the coast becomes better for invalids of the class named. A com- 
pilation of the death rate of twelve of our largest cities and towns 
of California, including Santa Cruz, gives a mean annual mortality 
of 16 to each 1,000 inhabitants. This is a favorable showing com- 
pared with the Eastern States and cities in Europe, where the "mor- 
tality is from 20 to 30 per- 1,000. Santa Cruz, with its population of 
over 5,000, gives an annual mean of only a fraction over 8, and of 
course this includes many invalids in advanced stages of disease, 
whose deaths go to swell the mortality list. This place should 
become a favorite winter resort for invalids, as the mild southerly 
winds which prevail during the winter, often bringing showers, are 
always warm and they have a pretty even temperature of 62 ° F. at 
or near the beach. The air becomes cooler as we ascend the 
mountains, at the rate of one degree for every 250 feet, so we can 
select any reasonable degree of mild temperature. Many invalids 
would certainly not be benefited by coming here from long distances ; 
some persons and some diseases may be found for whom all these 







'Caught Dripping. 



conditions, so generally desirable, may not be exactly favorable, but 
if there is an accessible place in the world, combining as many or 
more of the natural essentials of a health -giving-and-health-restoring 



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resort than the shores of Monterey Bay, the person who will make 
it known to mankind will, at least, deserve the blessings of all health 
seekers." 

TROUT FISHING. 

Since the first settlement of California, Santa Cruz county has 
been known as the fisherman's paradise of the Pacific Coast, abound- 
ing in first rate trout streams. Within a range of thirty miles of 
coast, extending from Aptos on the south to Pigeon Point on the 
north-west, there are upwards of twenty streams rising in the moun- 
tains and emptying into the ocean, and into any of them the skillful 
angler may cast his line with a generally safe prospect of a catch. 
Mountain brook trout of the speckled variety, abound in all the 
creeks heading in the Santa Cruz mountains, and, at certain seasons, 
are very plentiful in the lagoons at the mouths of those streams. 
The lagoons at the outlets of the Laguna and Waddell creeks are 
during the summer months alive with fish, and in these places ladies 
and children can fish successfully without danger or fatigue. In these 
lagoons, and others of the same kind, fine salmon trout are plentiful 
in their season, and are often captured far up the streams, having 
worked their passage during the fall, or spawning season. 

Splendid catches are frequently made on these mountain streams. 
On one authentic occasion a hundred and fifty fine trout were taken 
within a couple of hours out of a tributary of the Soquel creek. A 
number of the best trout streams are situated within easy walking 
distance of Santa Cruz : The San Lorenzo, running right through 
the city, the Branciforte creek, emptying into the San Lorenzo, inside 
the city limits, the Soquel, Aptos and Zeyante, within eight miles of 
town, and distant still farther the Newell, Boulder, Bean, Bear, Majors', 
Laguna, San Vicente, Scott's, Big, Little, and Waddell creeks with 
their tributaries, and all of these afford good fishing, generally, 
through their entire length. 

Higher up in the mountains, on the head waters and tributaries 
of all these streams, the fish are smaller but more plentiful, and up 
there the more adventurous followers of " the gentle craft," will find 
a few days' good sport amidst grand and varied scenery, for through 
this region the scenery is just as good as the fishing, and the true and 
enthusiastic angler, always a lover of Nature and the beautiful, can 
feast his eyes and heart on the picturesque, as he fills his basket with 
the " speckled beauties," forgetting all fatigue in the midst of good 
sport and delightful scenery. 



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The favorite baits are " angle- worms," found in moist ground, and 
" sand-fleas," easily obtained by digging in the sea sand. Flies take 
us into science and out of our unscientific province. 

OCEAN FISHING. 

Along the cliffs, from the points of jutting rocks, and from the 
wharves, good fishing is constantly to be had ; perch of various 
kinds, smelt, tom-cod, sea-bass, rock-fish, and one of the finest and 
"gamest" of sea fishes, the barracuda, is frequently taken here by 
trolling. To enjoy deep-sea fishing it is only necessary to make an 




Triton and Minnows. 



arrangement for a visitor's seat in the safe and commodious boat of 
some obliging Santa Cruz or Soquel fisherman, and go with him to 
his fishing grounds, from one half to three miles from shore, where 
he catches some of the choicest fish supplied to the San Francisco 
and other markets, including the following, with many others: 
Eastern shad, one to five pounds weight, only four years in those 
waters. Pompinoes, a delicacy celebrated amongst epicures, ^ to 
1^2 pounds weight. Mackerel, two kinds, i to 5 pounds weight. Sole, 
weighing x /> to 3 pounds each. Halibut, 50 to 75 pounds. Sea 
bass, three kinds, weights 1 to 75 pounds each. Bonita, an excellent 
fish like mackerel, 10 to 14 pounds. Barracuda, better still, 3 to 
8 pounds. Flounders, 5 to 8 pounds. Sea trout, 1 to 2 pounds. 



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Blue fish, i to 8 pounds. Smelt, three kinds, all good. Sardines, 
very abundant at .times. 

Crabs of splendid size and quality can always be taken in reason- 
ably smooth water from the wharves with little baited crab nets. 
This crab is to most people a delicious luxury. 

Sea bass and barracuda are caught from March to October. 
Also the rightful king of food fishes, the Salmon Trout, from i to 10 
pounds weight, as well as big Salmon of excellent quality, 20 to 40 
pounds weight, and the regular retail price of choice fish delivered 
at the doors of consumers every morning by obliging fishermen is 
6 to 10 cents per pound. 

WILD FLOWERS. 

And this "paradise of the angler" is surely also the " promised 
land," or happy hunting ground of the naturalist, the botanist and 
the florist. The herbaceous flowering plants of this region are so 
numerous that we can only speak briefly of a few members of some 
prominent families. 

The Buttercups are represented by the Ranunculus Calif omicus , 
which, during the whole year, may be found blooming in moist, 
grassy places. A Clematis may be seen climbing over trees and 
bushes, along the margins of creeks, and when the white, silky 
flowers are gone, the fruiting of this creeper, with its long white tails 
(1 to 2 inches), gives the tree over which it twines a beautiful appear- 
ance during the winter months. 

We have the little "wind flower," Anemone Nemorosa, so much 
loved in the East; here it grows larger and none the less beautiful. 

Of the Barberries we have three or four shrubby plants, all 
"worthy members" of that family, of which some are used in medi- 
cine and others bear edible berries. 

The Poppy family is represented by three or four beautiful species 
worthy of cultivation, the Eschscholtzia and two species of Platy- 
stigma being among them. There are four species of beautiful 
violets, three in the woods and one in the fields, and two species of 
" Spring Beauty " are found in abundance. 

The Lupines are numerous and nearly all handsome — about ten 
species of the forty or fifty known to belong to California. We have 
also a large proportion of the clovers — ten out of the twenty-six 
credited to California; many of them are showy and singular in 
shape, and nearly all furnish good forage. Wild peas abound, and 
cattle fatten on them in the mountain ranges. Two wild Roses are 



l6 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

found, one kind in the woods and the other in the open fields and 
vales, and they are both very fragrant and both beautiful. Evening 
Primroses are numerous and two or three kinds are well worthy of 
cultivation, notably Zauschneria, Clarkia, and one or two species of 
Oenothera and Godetia. 

Twining over trees and undergrowth is a vine somewhat like a cu- 
cumber ; it is Megarrhiza, commonly known as " big root." It bears- 




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" What are the Wild Waves Saying ?■' 

a fruit about the size of a peach, covered with prickles, and the root 
is often twelve to fifteen inches in diameter and four or five feet long, 
while the vine itself may be fifty feet long. Another vine common 
here is a Convolvulus C. occidentalism with white flowers, large and 
handsome. 

Conspicuous along the shaded streams and moist hill-sides, are 
several species of the " Monkey flower," Mimulus Douglassi. M. 
luteies, M. Moschatus (the musk plant), and on dry, grassy hills the 
M. glutinosus, while with the last, and about moist cliffs, grows the 
Collinsia bicolor, a beautiful flower, often cultivated. 

Amongst the wild flowering shrubs, the fragrant and beautiful Cal- 
ifornia Lilac, Creanothus, is conspicuously abundant both on the hill- 
sides and in the valleys, and there are several species, mostly with 
pale blue flowers. 

But the glory of the woodsides and openings in bloom and per- 
fuming the air all the year round, is the thrice lovely Azalea ; its 
gorgeous beauty and fragrance cannot be described. Alas ! that it 
does not submit kindly to cultivation. 

FERNS. 

In the woods and mountains about the Bay of Monterey a large 
variety of ferns abound, and they are all beautiful, and many of 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 1 7 

them worthy of cultivation. So far some 15 species and several va- 
rieties have been found. Some little nooks, shaded and moist with 
springs, yield 8 or 10 species, within an area of half an acre. 
These plants add much to the beauty and attractiveness of woods, 
brooks and hillsides. 

On moist rocks, logs and roots of trees near the beach, and 
further back, a California Polypodium — somewhat like the Eastern 
species — may be found in abundance. 

The "gold" or "silver back" is everywhere, and no fern is more 
attractive. 

On the cliffs of sandstone or metamorphic rocks bordering many 
creeks, a rare and beautiful little fern is found, commonly known as 
the " Lace fern." 

There are 3 species of the " cliff fern " (Pellsea^). One is known 
as the Bird's foot fern. This is found on sunny hillsides, growing 
in the loose sand among rocks and bushes. 

The Pteris or common brake is abundant everywhere, forming tall 
and dense thickets in many places. 

There are two species of "Maiden-hair" ferns, not excelled in 
beauty by any foreign variety. 

An exquisite Lomaria is somewhat rare, but pays well the trouble 
of finding it in deep, cool canyons. 

The Woodwardia is very abundant, but none the less handsome, 
growing about springs, 5 to 6 feet high. 




'A Beaeh Boulder." 



There is an Asplenium, large and fine, found near the mountain 
streams. 

Of the Aspidium or Shield fern there are 3 or 4 species, all desirable. 



1 8 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

The Bladder fern (Cystopteris) a delicate and pretty little plant, 
is also not uncommon on cliffs bordering streams. 

To lovers of ferns our region is particularly attractive- 

" A GLORIOUS SIGHT." 

From March to June a magnificent variety of wild flowers array 
the plains and hillsides in large solid patches of brilliant colors, pre- 
senting one of the most gorgeous spectacles imaginable, and filling 
the air with a combination of wild and delicate perfumes. The va- 
rieties of the flowers are beyond counting ; in such a glorious pres- 
ence, enchanted by color and fragrance, we forget science, names and 




Just Four of Us." 



classes, barely recognizing many " old world " favorites in these big- 
ger and brighter forms which they attain here in their native wilds. 
The Lupine, the Orthocarpus, Grindelia, Wyethia, Eritrichium, 
Madia, the Malvastrum, and many others mingle colors and fragrance 
in this magic field of the " cloth of beauty." In July, August and 
September, after these beauties have passed away, the forest flora are 
in perfection ; in shady nooks by the cool refreshing streams, under 
alders, bay trees, buckeyes, redwoods and oaks. Then and there 
will be found the numerous family of Ferns, Wood Mosses and Li- 
chens, and the Lilies, Saxifrages, Equiseta, Orchids, Sedges, Holy 
Grass, and Liverworts. 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 19 

The birds sing joyously from the tree-tops, and the brook warbles 
contentedly on its happy way to the sea ; the glancing trout tempt 
us to a cast or two of the fatal line, but, under the gentling influen- 
ces of such peaceful surroundings, we actually resist the temptation 
and scamper away to fill our fish-basket with floral treasures for home 
decoration, leaving the speckled tempters a longer day. 

WINES. 

On the Santa Cruz mountains, eight to ten miles back from the 
coast, and 1,200 to 1,500 feet above sea level, some of the finest 
common red wine of the world is now being made from the old Mis- 
sion grape. This is the genuine, natural " vin du pays " of Califor- 
nia, and can be sold profitably at fifty cents per gallon, retail. It is 
entirely pure, free from added alcohol, and equally free from all 
earthy taste or other objectionable flavor. 

Very soon, too, the finer wines of these Santa Cruz mountain vine- 
yards will be sufficiently matured to go into successful competition 
with the first vintages of Europe. 

EXCURSIONS. 

Santa Cruz will certainly be found the place of places for excur- 
sion parties, attractive spots on various little beaches, and in the 
woods and mountains, by spring and stream, are beyond number, and 
at all the City Stables well appointed excursion wagons, carrying four to 
ten persons, and built expressly for this business, can be hired at 
very moderate rates, with careful, steady, experienced drivers, who 
know the country, its woods and scenery and roads thoroughly, and 
who, at the right time and place, can broil you a steak or a bird and 
prepare you a cup of coffee to absolute perfection. 

MANUFACTURES. 

Santa Cruz has a natural position and many facilities and capabil- 
ities likely to make it some day an active manufacturing center. 
Already it has the largest and finest lime kilns on the Coast, several 
tanneries, a first-class gunpowder manufactory, a fine new paper mill, 
extensive cement works, producing finest " Portland Cement " from 
materials found on the spot; numerous saw-mills, lumber manufac- 
tories and machine shops, a fuse factory, four or five flour and grist 
mills, two or three boot and shoe factories, wagon and carriage shops, 



20 



SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 



and many minor industries. Santa Cruz is the shipping point of 
large quantities of timber, lumber, firewood, shingles, pickets, lime, 
leather, gunpowder, fish, fruit, butter, eggs, poultry, and farming pro- 
duce of all kinds. All this exporting trade will increase every year, 
and it has been calculated, in the item of timber alone, that Santa 
Cruz County can supply fifty million feet of redwood annually for 
the next fifty years. 




Mouth of the Santa Cruz River— 4 P. M. " 



PLACES OF INTEREST 



AS NUMBERED ON 



MAP OF SANTA CRUZ. 



i. — Mouth of San Lorenzo River.— This is a fine place for 
bathing in the Summer season, as there are all temperatures of fresh 
and salt water. Sometimes the tides close the mouth of this river 
with sand, and the water accumulates for days, giving fine oppor- 
tunities for boating in the river channel for half a mile up. 

2. — Santa Cruz Beach. — This always, except at very high tide, 
affords a pleasant drive, and abounds in interesting objects, the 
wharves of which there are three, extend out some 300 feet, afford- 
ing good landing for the larger steamers. The bathing facilities are 
excellent. Beach Hill, overlooking this beach and the town, is 
adorned with many pretty cottages and beautiful residences. 

3.— Light House. — All the way to the Light House there are 
numerous attractions, either along the water's edge at low tide or on 
the cliff. The scene is ever varying, and no two visits, even on the 
same day, will reveal the same features. Sea-weed is abundant, and 
of much interest to those who wish to collect for study or ornament. 
"Shells may also be found of no mean beauty. A. visit to the Light 
House will be found interesting and Miss Laura Hecox's Museum of 
Natural History and Curiosities in the same building may be con- 
sidered a collection worthy of any place. 

4. — Race Track and Beaches. — There are several pretty and 
interesting beaches in this neighborhood, with shelving rocks and tide 
pools, filled with numerous animals and plants. Here is a hotel 
and other buildings, and the race track is excellent. The road be- 
tween the Light House and this place is for the most part delightful, 
on account of the beautiful fields on one hand, and the wild cliffs 



22 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

and sea on the other. There are some curious sandstone concre- 
tions at th:s beach similar to those at the Ancient Ruins. One mile 
west of Santa Cruz. 

5. — Moore's Beach includes first, a natural bridge with three 
arches, then a sand beach, and lastly, a rock-shelving beach with 
numerous tide pools, noted for their fauna and flora. This is also a 
favorable picnic place. It is reached from the coast road through 
the Natural Bridge Dairy Ranch, or through the Moore place. Two 
and and a half miles west of Santa Cruz, should be visited at low tide. 

6. — Natural Bridge and Beaches. — At the outlet of Meder 
Creek, which passes through the Terry and Baldwin Dairy Ranch, is 
found a very sandy beach, and further on a curious and grand natural 
bridge. It is a span over the mouth of a short gulch and is well 
worth seeing. The surf flows under the arch, and at high tide, a 
short distance up the gulch, washing beautiful pebbles and shells. 
The rocks under the arch are covered with limpets, barnacles, snails 
and many other curious things. The beaches on either side of this 
bridge are full of interest to those who would spend an hour or two 
in walking the sands or climbing the rocks. Four miles west from 
Santa Cruz. 

7. — Parson's Beach. — Consists, at low tide, of easily accessible 
shelving rocks extending far into the water. There are many crevices 
and tide pools filled with a great variety of plants and animals peculiar 
to this coast, It was once famous for clams and abalones, but they 
are not so plenty now. Six miles west from Santa Cruz. 

8. — Laguna Creek. — A beautiful little stream coming from 
springs in the high mountains that divide the San Lorenzo river from 
the ocean. Here is a neat little school-house, a forest of large trees, 
and a good camping and picnic place. The beach at the mouth of 
the creek is more noted for its white sand than anything else. Eight 
miles west from Santa Cruz. 

9. — Laguna Falls. — Some two miles up Laguna Creek, a beau- 
tiful little cascade tumbling over hard metamorphic sandstone, and 
embowered with evergreen trees. Here Mr. Gushee takes a stream 
in ditches around the hills to his dairy ranch, by which he keeps 
forage plants green and growing rapidly all the dry season. 

9 ^.—Yellow Bank Dairy or Laguna Milk Ranch.— Here 

are some fine buildings. Nine miles from Santa Cruz, west. 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 23 

1 i.i — Williams' Landing, no longer used, and its decaying build, 
mgs show that its glory has departed. Vessels used to be loaded 
from a large cable stretched across a little cove, the vessel moored 
under the cable. Lime, lumber, tanbark, and fuel came down the 
valley of a little creek, to be sent to San Francisco. Up this little 
valley the country is worth visiting on account of its wild scenery. 
This leads. up to Battle Mountain, some three miles from the coast, 
from which a splendid view can be obtained. 

12. — San Vicente Creek (or Joaquin Major's Creek), a stream 
of considerable size. Near the mouth of this creek, one-fourth of a 
mile from the shore, lies a flat island of rock, an acre or so in area. 
This once was a great resort for seals, whose roaring could be heard 
for miles at certain seasons. Recently their numbers have decreased 
thro' wanton rifle shooting by campers and others. "Castle Rock" 
also stands near this beach, bare to the base at low tide. Twelve 
miles north-west from Santa Cruz. 

13. — Davenport's Landing. — This little cove, scarce wide 
enough for a landing, contains the remains of two wharves and quite 
a number of dwellings. Some shipping continues to be carried on 
here. Fourteen miles north-west from Santa Cruz. 

14. — -Scott's Creek. — Passing the Archibald Dairy, where there is 
about 100 acres level, rich land, we enter the valley of Scott's Creek, 
a fine stream, or rather number of streams coming together near the 
beach, their sources being shaded by large forests of pine, redwood, 
nutmeg, etc., and wildest mountains. This is a great resort for 
hunters and fishers; deer, grizzly bears and California lions abound. 
Trout and salmon in season are abundant. There is hardly a prettier 
camping ground in the State. Sixteen miles from Santa Cruz, 
westerly. 

15. — Scott's Creek Falls is some four or five miles from the 
coast. The fall is almost 100 feet, and is a gem in its way, worth 
more than all the trouble necessary to reach it. Nineteen miles 
north-west from Santa Cruz. 

16. — Petroleum. — At this place some years ago works were erect- 
ed for the manufacture of coal oil from the petroleum-saturated sand- 
rock of the mountain near by. For some reason or other the 
enterprise did not prove remunerative and the buildings have gone 
to ruin. In this region there are large deposits of sandrock and shale 
bearing coal oil and other bituminous material. Petroleum can be 



24 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

reached best from the Ben Lomond road. It is a fine hunting 
region for deer, quail and rabbits. Six miles north-west from 
Santa Cruz. 

17. — Ben Lomond Road. — This road follows along the high 
lands that lie between the San Lorenzo and its tributaries and the 
ocean, and for a part of the way overlooking both. It starts out of 
Santa Cruz on High street, and there is a constant and gradual 
ascent to the lime kiln of Davis & Cowell, thence thro' Cave woods. 
It reaches an elevation west of the town of Felton of some 1,200 or 
1,500 feet, where it passes around the head of Gold Run. This is a 
little stream in the canon of which many years ago some person found 
a boulder which yielded about $30,000 of gold, all of which was 
expended in trying to find more, but as yet no one has succeeded in 
getting more than ordinary day's wages in mining there. This road 
passes over a wonderfully varied region of rocks, timber and soil. 
The scenery is unequalled. It is wildly romantic. As yet there are 
but few settlers. x\fter 'passing the lime kilns, there are but one or 
two houses on the road for a distance of ten or twelve miles, altho' 
there are many charming spots where small farms might be opened 
and pleasant homes be made. 

19. — Davis & Cowell's Lime Kilns and Quarries. — Out- 

croppings of hard crystalline limestone occur all thro' this region, of 
which as fine lime as can be produced anywhere is manufactured. 
Two miles north-west from Santa Cruz. 

20. — Pebbly Beach. — Famous for the great variety of curious 
and interesting pebbles of various forms of silica. It is but a small 
nook or indentation in the coast line, something like two miles be- 
yond Laguna Creek, and less than half a mile after crossing a wooded 
sedgey lagoon. Over a bridge a path leads down to the beach. Ten 
miles from Santa Cruz. 

21. — Dodero Spring. — This gushes out of the limestone in a 
huge volume and flows through the city, forming what in the early 
settlement of this place by the Spanish Missionaries was called Santa 
Cruz creek. It, with the Major's spring, further down, were used to 
run a grist mill for many years. One mile A>rth-west from Santa 
Cruz. 

24. — Evergreen Cemetery. — This is pleasantly situated on 
the side hill in the edge of a redwood grove, and overlooking the 
Potrero to the east. There are but a few acres in the plot, but the 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 25 

improvements are costly and tastefully made, and it is the frequent 
resort of persons* having the remains of friends buried there. Half 
a mile north from Santa Cruz. 

25.— Site of Mrs. E. W. Farnham's Residence, made 
famous by her book entitled, "California, In Doors and Out." 
Scarcely a vestige remains of what she had made with so much toil, 
trouble, and gladness. One mile north from Santa Cruz. 

26.— Reservoirs of Santa Cruz Water Works.— The water 
is forced into these reservoirs from the San Lorenzo by an engine. 
The elevation of the higher one is ninety feet. 

27. — Cement Works. — This establishment is used to manu- 
facture Portland cement chiefly from post tertiary lime deposits 
found abundantly in this vicinity. This deposit has come from 
springs containing a large excess of minerals in solution, mainly lime, 
and in trickling over grass, mosses, etc., the water has evaporated, 
leaving the solution as an incrustation, after the manner of stalagmites 
in caves. This cement is proving equal to any in the world. The 
process of manufacturing is new and interesting and the manager is 
always pleased to show and explain it to visitors. 

28. — Hebrew Cemetery. — A well-chosen place, commanding a 
view of the ocean, bay, city, and mountains. Near Davis and 
Corwell's lime kilns. Two miles north-west of Santa Cruz. 

29. — Cave, Wood sand Meder's Grove. — Pleasant picnic 
places on the Ben Lomond road. The cave is only a few steps from 
the road, just at a little bridge over a small stream about three miles 
from town. It is not very remarkable so far as explored. After 
passing into a large room near the mouth, there is a narrow passage 
where it is necessary to crawl on the wet rocks and through water to 
reach the next room. But few persons have ventured so far, and all 
beyond is fable and uncertainty. 

30. — Kron's Tannery, on the road to the powder mill • and 
Felton. Near this is Fischer's tannery, and also Kunitz's soap and 
glue factory, and a little further the engine~station for forcing water 
into the Water Co.'s reservoirs. 

31. — Water Company's Pump Works.— Half a mile from 
Santa Cruz, north, on road to powder mill. 

32. — Powder Mill Works. — Extensive and costly works worth 
a million dollars or more. Situated along the San Lorenzo river for 



26 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

nearly a mile. Mr. Bernard Peyton, the superintendent, resides in a 
sightly house overlooking all the works. From one and one-half to 
three miles from Santa Cruz, north, near road to Felton and railroad 
to San Francisco. At a time when gunpowder, impaired by a six 
months' voyage, commanded in California the high price of $13 
per keg, these works were started by the California Powder Com- 
pany. They found here a water power of 80 feet fall, and many 
other important advantages, especially that of an equable climate. 
The location is also faultless, with high hills completely sheltering 
the surrounding country from any effects of a possible explosion. 
The machinery is of the highest class, much of it unique. The 
whole process is of great interest, and visitors are always welcome 
to inspect the works. 

33. — Big Tree Grove. — Famous for many years as the site of 
Gen. Fremont's camp, and also as containing one large and beautiful 
redwood tree, 300 feet high and 20 feet in diameter. There are many 
other very large trees here, but none, straight and solid, quite so large. 
The railroad to San Francisco passes through the edge of this grove. 
Five and a half miles from Santa Cruz. A charming resort for 
pleasure seekers. 

34. —Entrance of Gold Run into the San Lorenzo. — A 

little farther and the town of Felton, a thriving little village, is 
reached. Here are stores, hotels, livery stables, and many neat 
cottages. About six miles from Santa Cruz. 

35. — Bennett's Lime Kilns. — One mile west of Felton. 

36. — Odd Fellows' Cemetery. — One mile north of Santa Cruz, 
on road to Felton, east of San Lorenzo river. 

37. — Road to Zeyante and Felton, over Thompson's Flat and 
Graham Hill. 

38. — Graham Hill. — At the foot of this hill is the Zeyante creek, 
a brisk and charming little stream. 

39. — Fuse Factory. — This manufactory has been in successful 
operation for ten or twelve years. It is run by water power ; the water 
is taken from Bean creek, a tributary of the Zeyante. Six miles 
northerly of Santa Cruz, on railroad to San Francisco. 

40. — Locke's Ranch, remarkable for its great variety of surface, 
springs and beautiful meadows. In the edge of Scott's Valley, seven 
miles northerly of Santa Cruz. 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 2J 

41. — Ancient Ruins. — On D. M. Locke's Ranch, is a curious 
formation of sandstone, resembling the crumbling columns of some 
ruined building with massive pillars. The sandstone contains frag- 
ments of marine shells and fossils. On Bean creek, half a mile 
from Mr. Locke's residence. 

42. — Hepzedam. — This place for awhile was the home of the late 
Dr. Kittridge, and he gave it this odd name as suggestive of his " flee- 
ing to the mountains." It is a wild and retired nook on the side hill, 
overlooking a forest of redwoods rising out of the valley of Bean 
creek. Seven miles north of Santa Cruz. 

43- — County Hospital and Poor House. — Two miles north 
of Santa Cruz ; an admirable situation for a sanitarium. 

44- — Hihn's New Water Reservoir. — On the old San Jose 
road, three and one-half miles from town. 

45- — Strawberry Valley, DeWolf's place. — A spring situated 
here is said to possess magnetic properties. Near here is a brook 
that deposits a mineral on sticks, stones and grass, similar to the 
cement material near Santa Cruz. About eight miles north of Santa 
Cruz. 

46. — Magnetic Spring. — This is a charming resort for either 
well people or invalids. The water is tonic, the climate is delightful, 
and the scenery extremely beautiful. Hotel and cottages kept by 
Mr. Haight. Nine miles north of Santa Cruz. 

47. — Vine Hill, one of the finest vineyards in this district, is quite 
near Magnetic Springs. This is a great grape and peach growing 
region \ scenery, splendid ; nine miles north-east of Santa Cruz. 

48. — Water Company's Reservoir of the Branciforte, two 

miles north-east of Santa Cruz. 

49- — Isbell Grove. — One of the most beautiful groves in the 
vicinity of Santa Cruz, two miles north-east of Santa Cruz. 

50. — Squabble Hollow, so called, on account of ancient land 
troubles, three miles north of Santa Cruz. 

51. — Happy Valley. — Here, in the midst of charming scenery, 
is the home of Judge Rice, once our representative in the State 
Legislature ; four miles up the Branciforte Creek. 

52. — Elliott's Old Mill. — Near here the road forks, one going to 
Vine Hill, the other, on the right, going to Fitch's Vineyard ; five 
miles north-east. 



28 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

53. Fitch and Lay's Vineyard, and near by is the Daken 
Ranch. All this country is well suited for fruit and wine growing, 
and is full of picturesque beauty. 

54. Mason's Grove. — A dense and beautiful grove for picnic 
parties or camping. 

55. — Cahoon's Mill. — This is converted into a chair factory. 

56. Soquel Beach. — Camp Capitola. — The mouth of ■ the 
Soquel Creek. This has always been a favorite resort for campers, 
in the summer months. Four miles from Santa Cruz, on the Santa 
Cruz Railroad. 

57. — Sugar Refinery. — A costly establishment, turning out an 
excellent quality of beet sugar. Between Soquel and the beach. 

58. — Soquel Paper Mill. — A new and flourishing establish- 
ment manufacturing an excellent article of paper. 

59. — Hihn's Grove. — A favorite place for pic-nic parties. Just 
north of Soquel. 

60. — Lake Marina (formerly Wood's Lagoon). — Naturally, this is 
one of the most charming places of public resort on this or perhaps 
any other coast; and with the new arrangements for camping, 
boating and bathing, together with other improvements now in pro- 
gress, it will become still more attractive to visitors generally. One 
mile east of Santa Cruz. 

61. — Corcoran's Lagoon. — Fine place for duck hunting. Two 
and a half miles east of Santa Cruz. 

62. — Catholic Cemetery, and Arana Gulch. — Two miles 
east of Santa Cruz. 

63. — Uriah Thompson's Ranch. — Where the lower Soquel and 
Santa Cruz road crosses the Rodeo Gulch. J. S. Mattinson, and 
Henry Winkle, are situated on the upper road. 

64 — Aptos. — A small village near the beach, on the Santa Cruz 
Railroad. 

65. — Aptos Hotel. (Spreckles). — A well appointed hotel, and 
numerous cottages for the accommodation of visitors and families 
wishing to occupy a separate cottage. In full view of the bay, and 
near the Santa Cruz Railroad. Seven miles east of Santa Cruz. 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 29 

66. — Orel's Grove.— -An exceedingly pleasant resort for large 
parties, or celebrations. It extends to the beach, where there are 
high cliffs of strata, bearing numerous kinds of fossil shells. Five and 
one-half miles south-east of Santa Cruz. 

67.— Aptos Beach, near the Aptos Hotel, at mouth of Aptos 
Creek. ; 

68.— Nichols's Iron and Magnesia Springs.— This water is 
rich in iron, (per-sulphate,) and in magnesia, lime, and soda. It 
possesses powerful medicinal qualities, and has already a reputation 
for cures. 

69. — Spreckel's Lagoon. — This is a small lake just beyond 
Aptos, on the Castro Ranch. 

70. — Loma Prieta. — The highest point in the Santa Cruz Moun- 
tains. A splendid view can be obtained from this mountain on a 
clear day. There is a trail leading to the summit from the south side 
at the source of one branch of the Soquel Creek. Altitude, nearly 
4,000 feet above the sea. New Almaden Quicksilver mines are sit- 
uated at the eastern base of this mountain. 

71. — Wright's Hotel. — This is located on what once was the 
Burrell place, and about one mile from the railroad to San Jos£. It 
is a pleasant location, and the house is comfortable. There is a fine 
orchard attached. 

72.— Hotel de Redwood. — On the stage road to San Jose ; pleas- 
antly situated near a big hollow redwood tree, which served at one 
time a kind of room where a man kept refreshments. 

73. — Judge Miller's Ranch. — This is on the spur of a moun- 
tain, commanding a fine view of country and ocean towards the 
south. The ranch is well suited for fruit raising, and is a healthy 
location. Altitude, about 1,500 feet above the sea. 

74- — Slaughter's Boarding House. — Is still higher than Judge 
Miller's, and similarly located. 

75. — Aiken's Ranch. — Situated nearly over the long tunnel of 
the railroad. 

76. — Mountain Charley's. — This for a long time was a stage 
station, and Mountain Charley was a character of renown ; but the 
proprietor has moved to San Jose, and the station is deserted. 



Temperature and Rainfall from Sitka to San Diego. 






3 \5 



REMARKS. 



Sitka 

•Steilacoom 

Astoria 

Humboldt Bay. 
San Francisco . 

Benioia 

Santa Cruz 

Watsonville 



San Joaquin Valley. 

Monterey 

Santa Barbara 

Wilmington, (port of 
Los Angeles . . . 

Los Angeles 

San Diego 



56 58 

61 

56 61 



42.00 
50.00 
45.00 
57.00 
55.23 
58.00 
59.50 
57.90 



55.00 
61.08 

61.75 
62.16 
62.11 



95.00 
90.00 
86.35 
34.00 
21.19 
19.43 
23.00 
22.05 

12.00 

18.27 
14.71 

14.00 
13.00 
10.00 



27 years. 

Parts of 10 years. 



2 years. 

good average yr. 

ul r\art r\f vol lav 



) 1872, a good average yr. 
J central part of valley. 

8 years. 

1 or 2 years. 

2 years. 
21 vears. 



This table is compiled from various sources, and shows only 
approximately the temperature and rainfall at some points. Many 
years are required to obtain a correct mean. It gives the average 
monthly and yearly means of temperature. It shows the gradual de- 
crease of rain and increase of temperature as we go south from Sitka, 
and will prove interesting as a comparison. 



Table of Temperature and Rainfall at Santa Cruz, Cal. 

Meterological observations have not been regularly made at 
Santa Cruz until the last three years. W. A. Lawson and Capt. 
Sager furnish the material from which the following table is compiled. 
Most of these observations are made at the beach, where the tem- 
perature is a little lower than " up town," say about four or five 
degrees in the summer season. In the winter the difference is not so . 
much, being nearly equal. The rainfall of 1878 is much above the 
average, which may be placed at about twenty inches at the beach. 
But as we ascend the mountain slopes toward the north, the rainfall 
increases rapidly. At a distance of six miles and an altitude of 800 
or 1000 feet, the precipitation is double. 





1878. 


1879. 




Thermometer. 


Rain. 


Thermometer. 


Rain. 




01 

I 

3 


n 

* 
O 
►J 


si 


m 




1 

Q 


i 
% 

3 


03 


i 


3 

■a 


O! 




67 

70 " 

65 

72 

77 

78 

80 

78 

88 

85 

70 

70 

75 


30 
40 
39 
39 
46 
52 
52 
46 
49 
42 
38 
31 


52 
52 
53 
51 
57 
59 
61 
60 
61 
59 
56 
50 


10.76 
14.71 
4.04 
2.06 


15 

15 

10 

5 


64 
76 
86 

78 
87 
90 
90 
97 
90 
90 
72 
70 


32 
34 
40 
42 
40 
50 
50 
55 
48 
42 
32 
32 


45 
55 
56 
58 
60 
62 
65 
60 
64 
60 
53 
44 


4.74 

4.42 
3.64 
2.14 
1.41 
0.05 


9 




7 




* 




ft 




ft 










July 


















1.27 
2.75 
0.30 
1.34 


4 

1 
2 
4 


0.02 
1.06 
3.76 
2.50 


1 




3 


November 

December 


7 
9 


Yearly Mean 


42 1 57 


37.23 




66 


42 


56 


23.74 






California Poppies. 



Monterey. 



As is now generally known, and for which thanks may be rendered 
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the hitherto sleeping muni- 
cipality of Monterey has been aroused from its Rip Van Winkleism, 
and assumes a condition as one of the most attractive places and 
pleasure resorts upon the Pacific Coast. Situated upon a bay which 
has no superior in point of beauty, safety, and eligibility, we salute 
our neighbor, and wish her all the success imaginable as the offspring 
of the new hope within her. 

" Like a maiden musing sadly o'er her suitors turned away, 

" Long she sat in lonely beauty close beside her crescent bay, 

" Heeding not the world of action that beyond her -portals lay, 

"Careless of the strife of nations, living only for to-day. 

" Dreaming of a golden future, while the present drifted by, 

"'As a ship becalmed may linger 'neath the storm-cloud in the sky. 

" All her passions wrapped in slumber ; slowly through her languid 

veins , 

" Flowed her blood as in midsummer creeps the stream across the 

plains. 

" Never lover came to woo her, never woke she from the trance, 

" Like the mystic Sleeping Beauty in the pages of romance — 

" Till the fairy ' Prince of Progress' smiled upon her hidden charms, 

" On her ripe lips quickly kissed her, reached and drew her to his 

arms. 
* * # % * * 

" Soon a queen among the cities that adorn our golden coast 
" Shall she stand, and in her glory, of her noble lover boast." 

RETROSPECTIVE. 

Two hundred and seventy-eight years ago last December, or 
about 109 years after the distinguished Genoan first sighted land 
in the Carribean Sea, Don Sebastian Vizcayno, acting under in- 
structions from Philip III., of Spain, sailed into the placid waters 
of what is now known as the Bay of Monterey, and subsequently 
came on shore with two priests and a number of soldiers, and 
took possession of the same in the name of the King of Spain ; 
the party then erected a cross, improvised an altar in the gracious 



34 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

shade of an umbrageous oak, and, with no listeners but the birds,, 
no spectators but the stars, and no choral symphonies but the 
winds, gave sublime meaning to their Latin hymn, while their 
Christian zeal and ardor found utterance in the solemn chant — 

" Vexilla Regis prodeurit, 
Fulget Crucis Mysterium." 

Vizcayno called the spot Monterey, in honor of Gaspar de 
Zuniga, Count de Monterey, at that time Viceroy of Mexico, and 
who had. fitted out the expedition. The appearance of the coun- 
try made a deep impression upon the enthusiastic navigator, and 
the hope of his heart was to return to his native land and present 
a record of his discoveries, and then again to set sail for that 
lovely crescent of the Pacific with material for the founding of a 
church, and for the erection of a permanent abiding-place. But 
his dreams were never realized, and it was 166 years after his 
departure before the foot of a white man again pressed the soil of 
Monterey. In the fall of 1769, Gaspar de Portala, Governor of 
Lower California, at the head of two priests and sixty-three sol- 
diers, came overland from San Diego, and erected a cross near 
the Bay of Monterey, although he failed to identify the place accord- 
ing to the map and other descriptions furnished 166 years before 
by Vizcayno. 

The above Christian incident has been exquisitely apostrophized 
in verse by Bret Harte, as follows: 

portala's cross. 

Pious Portala, journeying by land, 

Reared high a cross upon the heathen strand, 

Then far away 
Dragged his slow caravan to Monterey. 

The mountains whispered to the valleys, "Good !" 
The sun, slow sinking in the western flood, 

Baptized in blcod 
The holy sfandard of the Brotherhood. 

The timid fog crept in across the sea, 

Drew near, embraced it, and streamed far and free, 

Saying, " O, ye 
Gentiles and Heathen, this is truly He !" 

All this the Heathen saw; and when once more 
The holy Fathers touched the lovely shore — 

Then covered o'er 
With shells and gifts — the cross their witness bore. 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 35 

THE ARRIVAL OF FATHER JUNIPERO SERRA. 

In June, 1770. Father Junipero Serra, the best-known and noblest 
of the Franciscan missionaries, and who had arrived in Monterey 
Bay in the packet vessel San Antonio, on the last day of May, cele- 
brated the Day of Pentecost by the erection of a cross, the building 
of an altar, the ringing of bells and blessing of water. Then both 
the land and sea parties, that had left San Diego simultaneously on 
the 15th day of April, chanted the Yeni Creator, sang the Salve 
Regina, hoisted the royal standard, took possession of the country in 
the name of the King of Spain, amidst a discharge of musketry, and 
concluded with a Te Deum. From that time up to 1830 Monterey 
was one of the largest shipping points on the coast, and had one of 
the most flourishing mission churches. It early became the capital 
of the Territory, and maintained that distinction not only after Mex- 
ico became an independent country in 1822, but also after the ac- 
quisition of California by the United States in 1846. 

INTERESTING REMINISCENCES OF THE OLD CAPITAL. 

Commodore Sloat hoisted the American flag on the 7th of July, 
1846, and in a few weeks thereafter portions of Stevenson's regiment 
arrived. On the 1st day of August, 1849, the old town was enliv- 
ened by arrivals from all parts of the State of delegates to the first 
California Constitutional Convention. There were forty members, 
a majority of whom could not speak or readily understand English ; 
but these forty gentlemen, in forty working days, made a Constitu- 
tion that lasted thirty years, and under which we have become a 
happy and prosperous people. It may be remarked that the Con- 
vention of '49 had two chaplains, one a Catholic and the other a 
Protestant. Prayers were uttered in Spanish and English each day. 
The present survivors of that Convention are Charles T. Botts, A. 
J. Ellis and William M. Gwin, residents of San Francisco ; Pacificus 
Ord, now in the East; R. M. Price, since then Governor of New 
Jersey; P. Sainsevain, for the past twenty-five years a resident 
of Los Angeles, and the manufacturer of the celebrated Cucamongo 
wine ; John A. Sutter, one of our most famous pioneers, now a resi- 
dent of Pennsylvania; M. G. Vallejo, who resides in Sonoma county; 
and O. M. Wozencraft, of desert reclamation celebrity. 

Monterey was the capital for many years, and many of the Gov- 
ernors under Spanish, Mexican and American rule made the place 



36 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

their homes. Among the Spanish Governors were Jose Arguello, 
Diego de Borica, Jose de Arrillaga and Pablo Vincente de Sola. 
The latter was the last Spanish Governor, and served from 1815 
until 1822. He also served one year as Governor under Mexican 
rule, but retired in 1823, and was succeeded by Luis Arguello, who 
held his seat until June, 1825. Then followed eleven Mexican Gov- 
ernors, ending with Don Pio Pico, in July, 1846. 

American rule commenced with Commodore Sloat on July 7, 
1846. Sloat was succeeded by Commodore Stockton, August 17, 
1846; the latter was succeeded by Colonel John C. Fremont, who 
assumed the Territorial Governorship in January, 1847. - General 
S. W. Kearney followed on March 1st, of the same year, and Colonel 
Mason on May 31st, and served about two years, when he gave way 
to General Riley, April 13, 1849, who was succeeded a short time 
afterward by Gen. Persifer F. Smith, who directed the helm until 
the inauguration of Peter H. Burnett, the first Governor of the State, 
which took place on December 20, 1849. 



THE ACME OF SOMNOLENCE REACHED. 

In the meantime the capital was moved to San Jose, and then 
commenced that dolcefar niente which has characterized the condi- 
tion of the ancient and honorable pueblo for thirty years, and which 
culminated in peaceful somnolence, when the little, saucy, aspiring, 
successful town of Salinas, on the 6th of November, 1872, snatched 
from it its title to the county seat. This was, to use an old expres- 
sion, the "straw that broke the camel's back." Twenty-five years 
antecedent there were balls, theatrical performances and minstrelsy 
every night. The city was filled with officers of the United States 
Army and Navy, and at times with the leading men of California 
and their families. There were hundreds of beautiful women, too, 
whose delightful presence imparted a zest to the bailes and frolics of 
that day. Then came the long nocturnal era, and the halcyon 
days departed ; no more efforts at minstrelsy by " Tips," " Taps" 
and " Tops f no more Thespian travesties by Lieutenant Derby 
(" Phoenix,") Ned Bingham, Mrs. Bingham and Mrs. Kettlebottom, 
(" Phoebus, what a name!") 

" No more beneath soft eve's consenting star 
" Fandango twists his jocund castanet." 



V 

ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 

37 
In all the ebbings and flowings of California life, nearfyft .4 
the storms, in all the calms — Monterey was as completely s^ated^ 
for a time, from all active participation in exterior eventis theO 
Caspian is separated from all other seas. It became the ] Leepy 
Hollow of the Land of the Setting Sun." 

" One of those little places that have a run 
" Half up the hill beneath a blazing sun, 
" And then sit down to rest, as if to say, 
" I climb no farther upward, come what ma" : 

I 

5 

THE TRANSFORMATION. 

The building of a narrow-guage railroad from Salina s t0 Monterey, 
in 1874, had much the effect that a well-developed' thump from a 
passing temblor has on any community — it stirred it 1 jp a little. But 
upon its completion the old town returned to her somnolence anG - 
was again lost in the ambrosial phantasmagoria of her interrupt 
dream. The awakening from that dream transpired in December, 
1879, upon the knowledge of the fact that the managers of the 
Southern Pacific Railroad had concluded that an oceaia suburb was 
one of the needs of the metropolis of the Pacific Coast — some de- 
lightful spot on the sea-shore far enough away to shut off the din 
of city life, and yet not so distant as to use up the best part of a 
day in journeying thither. These managers bethought themselves of 
Monterey, the ancient capital, with its lovely beach, its magnificent 
drives, and its incomparable climate, where the midday sun gleams 
from an undimmed zenith three hundred days in the year ; where 
the broad expanse of waters, on each succeeding sunset, stirred to 
lightest ripples by a gentle west wind, shines like a vast floor of shat- 
tered diamonds ; where earth, air, sea and sky are instinct with ma- 
jesty, and where, thirty odd years ago, before even the infancy of 
our State, the beauty and the chivalry of the Territory of California 
gathered. 

The great desideratum, however, was an elegant hotel at Monte- 
rey ; for how could the principal watering-place of the Pacific be 
made immediately and permanently attractive without a splendid 
caravansary? and, as no one could be found who would erect a 
spacious mansion of entertainment, the railroad managers placed the 
matter in the hands of their own architects, and at once turned their 
attention to the purchase of a tract of land for the erection of their 
hotel and for ground surrounding. In the meantime, a railway track 






38 



SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

of 

f ^dard gauge was laid from Castroville to Monterey, and daily 

*r; set to running regularly between the latter place and San Fran- 

iF ~i r In a short time thereafter the grounds were put in excel- 

v Jer;rder and the hotel erected thereon, which will be described 

unc the heading of " Hotel del Monte." Is it to be wondered at 

that onterey at last awoke to the importance of her hopes and 

f espon Jlities ? "The whirligig of time," it has been said, " brings 

Ir * his reviges." In view of the fact that Monterey — the ancient 

Jandrnaric ' r California civilization — has been transformed from an 

uninviting Jobe town into a fashionable watering-place, we may 

declare that * tne whirligig of time" brings in something better than 

r evenge. 

MONTEREY BAY. 

The bay of MV nterev * s a magnificent sheet of water, and is twenty- 
ei ght r^iles from point to point. It is large enough to shelter the 
nav -\es of the world, while its anchorage is secure except during very 
stc rmy weather. The harbor, properly, is in the shape of a horse- 
shoe, the mouth opening to the north; it is amply protected from 
the south, east and west, and with a breakwater extending half a mile 
into the bay from the northwestern shore the harbor would afford 
perfect safety from winds from any and all points of compass ; as it 
is, the largest ships may generally ride with safety any gale. The 
bay is delightfully adapted to yachting; and many kinds of fish (and 
especially rock-cod, baracouta, pompino, Spanish mackerel, and 
flounder,) may be taken at all seasons of the year. For bathing 
purposes the beach is all that could be desired — one long, bold 
sweep of wide, gently sloping, clean white sands — the very perfection 
of a bathing beach, and so safe that children may play and bathe 
upon it with entire security. There are also great varieties of sea- 
mosses, shells, pebbles and agates scattered here and there along 
the rim of the bay, fringed as it is at all times with the creamy ripple 
of the surf of its broad, blue, beautiful waters. 

CHARACTER OF THE BEACH FOR BATHING PURPOSES. 

The beach is only a few minutes' walk from the Hotel del Monte, 
and is a very fine one. Mr. W. H. Daily, the champion swimmer of 
the Pacific Coast, and who has made himself well acquainted with the 
character of several of the most noted beaches from San Francisco 
to Santa Monica,' says, in a letter dated Monterey, December 15, 
1879: "I have made a careful examination of the beach at this 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOC)k 39 

place, as to its fitness for purposes of bathing. I finpi it an easy, 
sloping beach of fine sand ; no gravel, no stones arJS ^re below 
high water mark. I waded and swam up the beach a c\rd \er of a 
mile, that is, toward the east, and also westward toward the ware- 
house, and found a smooth, sandy bottom all the way; no rocks, no 
sea weed and no undertow. The whiteness of the sand makes the 
water beautifully clear. I consider the beach here the finest on the 
Pacific Coast. I was in the water an hour yesterday, and found it, 
-even at this time of the year, none too cold for enjoyable bathing." 

THE SCENERY OF MONTEREY. 

There is probably no place upon the Pacific Coast more replete with 
natural charms than Monterey. Her exquisite beauty and variety of 
scenery is diversified with ocean, bay, lake and streamlet ; mountain, 
hill and valley, and groves of oak, cypress, spruce, pine and other 
trees. The mountain views are very beautiful, particularly the 
Gabilan and Santa Cruz spurs. That which will the quickest engage 
the observation of the visitor is the pine-fringed slope near town, 
and the grove that surrounds the "Hotel del Monte." There are a 
number of delightful drives to points of interest, all of w^hich will be 
found graphically described elsewhere. The time is not far distant 
-when Congress will be called upon to reserve a township for a State 
Park among the redwoods a few miles south of Monterey — indeed, 
a bill for that purpose has already bee 1 offered. 



THE CLIMATE AND HEALTHFULNESS OF MONTEREY. 

The weather at Monterey is not so warm either in summer or win- 
ter as in other parts of California further south, but there is an even 
temperature that can be found nowhere else. From January to De- 
cember, year in and year out, there is no summer nor winter weather. 
Indeed, the weather .at Monterey, from one year's end to another, 
partakes of that delightful interlude known in the East and South 
as Indian summer. The same balmy zephyrs breathe a delicious 
atmosphere all the year round, and summer and winter, so-called, 
serenely face each other and exchange compliments. The west 
wind, moist with the spray of Pacific billows, and laden with sugges- 
tions of spices in the far Cathay, comes in every evening with ozone 
and healing on its wings. All writers and meteorological observers 
.agree in pronouncing the temperature of Monterey one of the most 



40 



SAM^\ CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 






equable in thja.^Vlm of Hygeia. The pure oxyde contained in every 
atom of ao ru:;'a snuffed in at every breath has a most efficacious 
.effect u#n ?.ne system. Here, in this ambrosial latitude, 

" Reviving sickness lifts her languid head ; 

" Life -flows afresh, and young-eyed Health exalts 

" The whole creation 'round. Contentment walks 

" The sunny glade, and feels an inward bliss 

"Spring o'er his mind beyond the power of kings to purchase." 

The following carefully-prepared table presents the mean tempera- 
ture of Monterey and many other health resorts and places through- 
out the world : 



PLACE. 



Monterey 

San Francisco 

Los Angeles 

Santa Barbara 

San Diego. 

Santa Monica . . 

Sacramento ■ 

Stockton 

Vallejo 

Fort Yuma 

Cincinnati 

New York 

New Orleans 

Naples. 

Honolulu 

Funehal 

Mentone 

Genoa 

City of Mexico 

Jacksonville 

St. Augustine 



Jan. 


July. 


DifT. 


degs. 


degs. 


degs. 


52 


58 


6 


49 


57 


8 


55 


67 


12 


56 


66 


10 


57 


65 


8 


58 


65 


. 7 


45 


73 


28 


49 


72 


• 2 3 


48 


67 


19 


56 


92 


36 


30 


74 


44 


3 1 


77 


46 


55 


82 


27 


46 


76 


3° 


71 


77 


6 


60 


70 


to 


40 


73 


33 


46 


77 


3i 


52 


63 


11 


58 


80 


22 


59 


77 


18 



Latitude. 



deg. min.. 

36 36 

37 48 
34 04 
34 24 
3 2 4i 
34 00 

38 34 

37 5 6 

38 05 
3 2 43 

39 °6 

40 37 

29 57 
40 52 
21 16 
32 38 

43 7i 

44 24 
19 26 

30 5° 
30 05 



The table of temperature for Monterey was kept in 1874 by Dr. 
E. K. Abbot, a correspondent of the United States Signal Service ;. 
that for San Francisco by many parties, and is a mean of most any 
three years; Los Angeles by W. H. Brodrick (for 187 1), who took 
observations four times a day for seven years. The Santa Barbara 
record is for 1869, and was kept by officers of the Coast Survey. 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 4 1 

The Santa Monica record is for 1876, and was kept by Captain 
Chase of the Coast Survey. That for San Diego was kept by Dr. 
W. S. King, of the army, in 1853. The Fort Yuma record wasfcept 
by officers of the army in 1851. All others are taken from notes of 
travelers or from books written from friendly and sometimes enthu- 
siastic standpoints. It is probably as accurate a table as can be 
made, and is a representative "one, embracing, as it does, the most 
noted health resorts in the world. It will be seen by the above table 
that the Bay of Monterey has only one rival (Honolulu) in equability 
of temperature. It must be understood, however, that there is 
a great deal of hot, disagreeable weather on the islands, and a multi- 
plicity of drawbacks which Monterey does not possess. There are 
seldom any high, cold winds at and around Monterey, and never any 
hot ones. There is more or less foggy weather in the spring months, 
as there is all along the coast, and occasionally foggy mornings 
in summer. The latter, however, are really agreeable, as they infuse 
new life and freshness into tree and shrub and flower, and are not in 
the least detrimental in their influences upon human beings at that 
season of the year. 

OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN AND AROUND MONTEREY. 

1. — The Town of Monterey and its Attractions. — Aside 
from its historical celebrity, its climate, healthfulness and delightful 
situation, there are many attractions in the old town not previously 
enumerated and which may be properly presented in this paragraph, 
such, for instance, as the Cuartel, on California street ; Colton Hall,. 
the old Block House and Fort, the old Custom House, Calaboose and 
Commissariat, Catholic Church, Cemetery, and whaling and fishing 
points, .nu^^f the above-named places are objects of more or less in- 
terest, accora.rig to the fancy of the beholder. The Catholic Church 
was built in 1794, or nearly 100 years ago, and is constructed of fine 
white stone ; the altar is the work of an Italian, and is regarded as a 
fine piece of art ; there are also life-sized paintings of the Saints, and 
there are other paintings of great age and beauty. As many as five 
and six hundred people may worship in this church at a time. The 
Cemetery is situated across the estero, or slough, and is about half- 
way between the church and the new hotel grounds. It overlooks 
the bay and is covered with trees and flowers and grasses. Near the 
center of this enclosure are the remains of a stone wall that formerly 
marked the boundaries of the original cemetery as laid out by the 
Franciscan padres. Graves are scattered irregularly about, and are 



42 



SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 



for the most part hardly discernible. A little more than half a mile 
from town is what is known as Whaling Point, and a quarter of a mile 
further is the Chinese Fishery. Adjacent is the spot where the vessel 
which took Napoleon Bonaparte from off the Island of Elba was 
wrecked ; a portion of the wreck may still be seen at low tide. 




Hotel del Monte. 

2.— Hotel del Monte and Grounds. — To those who resort to 
Monterey as a fashionable watering place, the above-named hotel is 
looked upon as the greatest of all the attractions, not only on account 
of its being the most magnificent structure of the kind on the Pacific 
Coast, but because it is one of the largest, handsomest, and one of 
the most elegantly furnished sea-side hotels in the country. Indeed, 
no ocean house upon the Atlantic approaches it in its plan of 
exterior, while its interior finish, accommodations and appointments 
are much superior to those of any like establishment in the United 
States. It is built in the modern Gothic or Eastlake style, and 
is 385 feet in length and 115 feet in width, with wings; there 
are two full stories, an attic story, and several floors in the cen- 
tral tower or observatory. Its ground floor in some respects 
resembles that of the Grand Union at Saratoga; and, as in that 
and other eastern summer hotels, the lady guests have access to 
all the public rooms, and especially to the office, or lobby, in the 
front center of the building, which is 42x48 feet ; connecting with the 
lobby is a reading room, 24x26; then a ladies' billiard-room 25x62 ; 
then a ladies' parlor, 34x42, and then, with a hall or covered verandah 
between, a ball-room 36x72. There is a corridor extending the whole 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 43 

length of the building, 12 feet wide. The dining-room is 45x70; a 
childrens' and servants' dining-room is attached, and apartments for 
parties who may prefer dejeuners a la fourchette. The kitchen is 33x40 
feet. There are 28 suites of rooms on this floor, each with bath-room 
and all other modern improvements. There are three staircases, one 
at the intersection of each of the end wings, and a grand staircase 
leading from the lobby. In the second story there are 48 suites, or 
about 100 rooms, with bath-rooms and all other modern improvements. 
There is also a promenade the whole length of the building, 1 2 feet in 
width. In the attic story there are 13 suites and 29 single rooms, 65 
apartments in all. The central tower, or observatory, is 25x30 and 
about 80 feet in height; there are 10 rooms in the observatory; the 
end towers are about 50 feet in height. The hotel is lighted through- 
out with gas made at the works upon the grounds, and supplied with 
water from an artesian well upon the premises. No pains have been 
spared to' provide against fire, both in the perfect construction of 
flues and in the apparatus for extinguishing flames. The house is 
elegantly furnished throughout. The ladies' billiard-parlor is the 
largest and one of the most elegantly appointed in the United States. 
Adjacent to the hotel building is a bar-room and bowling-alley and 
smoking rooms for gentlemen. At a short distance from the hotel is 
-a stable and carriage house, large enough to accommodate sixty horses 
and as many carriages ; there is telephonic communication between 
the hotel and stable. There is hot and cold water throughout the hotel 
and all other modern appli- • ..^^ j ^.,_. 
ances and improvements. The 

grounds, consisting of about ■■ , _■.- 

106 acres, are entirely enclosed 
and are beautifully wooded 
with pine, oak, cedar and cy- 
press. There have been about 
1,200 young trees added, most 

of which are English walnut. s^nmBeai*. 

Croquet plats, an archery, 

swings, etc., are provided, and choice flowers and shrubs are being 
planted by an experienced gardener. The hotel will accommodate 
four hundred people; it is only a stone's throw from the station, 
which is connected with it by a wide gravel and cement walk. 

3- — The Beach and Bath House. — The beach is about a 
quarter of a mile from the Hotel del Monte, and is connected with 
the latter by walks and drives. A more perfectly desirable bathing 




44 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

place in every respect would be hard to find on any coast. There 
are ample accommodations in the bath houses, which will be added 
to, if occasion requires. 

4. — Race Track. — The hotel managers have purchased fifty-one 
acres of land, half a mile from the hotel, and have already com- 
menced the construction of a mile race track, grand stand, stable, and 
other buildings. The track occupies a remarkably fine position, over- 
looking the bay, and is supplied with water from a spring near by. 

5. — Laguna del Rey. — About a quater of a mile from the hotel 
is a small lake, called Laguna del Rey. It is a very pretty little sheet 
of water, and will be provided with boats and step-landings. Perch, 
carp, and trout will be introduced as soon as possible. 

6. — Landing Spot of Father Junipero Serra. — A large 
wooden cross, near the bridge, in the town of Monterey, indicates 
the landing place of that most clebrated of all of our pioneers, Father 
Junipero Serra. 

7. — The Pacific Grove Retreat Association Camp 
Grounds. — The eastern boundary is about one mile west of the town 
of Monterey, and following the sea-shore, the tract extends to the line 
fence of the dairy farm east of the Light House. This last boundary 
is marked by a conspicuous pile of rocks, which, looking as if it might 
be a Druidical monument, is the termination of a promontory that 
breaks the force of the northwesters, and shelters the sea line of the 
tract. Under the lee of the promontory is a beautiful little cove, 
possessing a smooth beach, and being almost entirely free from surf. 
Overlooking this cove are pine woods, interspersed with oaks, 
covering a surface of sufficient extent and smoothness for the 
accommodation of any congregation of auditors. Here is placed the 
stand for the preachers. The hotels occupy ground centrally located 
with reference to the sea, upon which the buildings, therefore, look 
out. A broad avenue traverses the grounds, with side streets, &c. 
The general arrangements of the Encampment are based upon the 
principles guiding those of the Eastern States, especially the one 
held at Ocean Grove, in the vicinity of Long Branch, N. J., and are 
under the control of the Board of Trustees. One hundred acres 
are divided into residential lots, a park, a pleasure ground, a grand 
avenue, minor streets and avenues, and the town. The lots are 
divided into sections, ranging from 30x60 to 30x125. The principal 
buildings are the preachers' stand — containing a platform for the 
ministers and seats for the choir. It faces the congregational 



ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. 45 

ground, which is arranged in a perfect circle 200 feet in diameter 
and a roadway of seventy-five feet. The aisles range from four to 
twelve feet in width. Benches are provided to accommodate about 
5,000 people. The whole is covered by the shade of the pines — 
tall, straight, young trees — through whose gothic branches the sun- 
light falls subdued. The restaurant is a commodious building, 33x90 
feet, placed but a short distance from the congregational ground. 
In close proximity are the grocery and provision store ; the meat 
market and furnishing and clothing store. On the opposite side of 
the street are six dormitories, each 24x50 feet. There is also a 
laundry. The stable accommodations are a few rods off, on the 
Monterey side, around a large well. The Encampment commands 
a splendid view of the Bay of Monterey, and the magnificent 
scenery surrounding it, with pretty bays for bathing places and 
beautiful groves for rambles. 

8. — Point Pinos and Light House.— The stately beauty 
which ornaments Point Pinos is situated on an eminence or point of 
land forming the extreme western shore of the Bay of Monterey, and 
distant from the town about three miles. The building is a dark gray 
stone structure, one and a half stories high, built in the strongest 
and most substantial manner. Rising from the center or ridge of 
the roof is a brick tower painted white, on which is firmly placed the 
iron lantern and illuminating apparatus, the exterior of which is 
painted red. This light station was erected by order of Hon. 
Thomas Corwin, Secretary of the Treasury, in the year 1853. The 
light was first exhibited to mariners on January 20th, 1855. The 
light is classed as a third order Fresnel, with catadioptric lenses, 
of immense and powerful magnifying capacity. The light, in ordi- 
nary fair and clear weather, should be discernable from a vessel's 
deck sixteen and one-half nautical miles. The height of center of 
focal plane above high water on sea level is 9 1 feet. The arc illu- 
minated is four-fifths' of the entire horizon, or 228 degrees. The 
description of the light, as given to mariners in their charts, is a 
third order, fixed white, Fresnel light. The drive to the Light 
House is pleasant and pretty, and well shaded. The road passes 
the grounds of the M. E. Encampment. The view from the tower 
well repays the visitor for his pains, and those in charge are always 
pleased to see visitors and to show them every attention. 

p. — Moss Beach. — This is a stretch of a mile from the Pacific 
Grove, or about three miles from Monterey. This is one of the pret- 




46 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

tiest spots on the coast. At low tide a person may walk out on a 
beach nearly a half a mile upon sand as hard as rock. The moss 
gatherer may spend hours at this point. 

10. — Seal Rocks. — A little further on are a cluster of rocks, upon 
which hundreds of seals rendezvous, so to speak, at all times during 
the year. An enjoyable sight maybe had of the seals on the tops of 
these rocks, as the water dashes over them. 

ii. — Cypress Point. — Cypress Point, says some writer, is the 

one spot more perfectly adapted than any other point in the State for 

. *. ^ssm* ««, , ' . --j-r ggg^. picnics and camping out. 

n, Start out along the Carmel 
road, and take the path 
through the woods ; climb 
the hill, and, testing on the 
flower -bedecked turf, sur- 
rounded by ferns and groves, 
take in the view. Adown 
cypress Point. the wooded slope, carpeted 

with a profusion of flowers 
of all colors under the sun, the brown, barren- looking moorlands 
of the Salinas plain rising and falling like an inanimate sea of 
motionless billows, with here and there a bright emerald patch of 
some small, well-tilled farm shining like a rough-set jewel. The 
stern and sombre Gabilan range, with its serrated ridges and 
dark clusters of pine woods, mellowed down with a filmy haze 
enshrouding its base. On our left, the beautifully blue waters 
of the Bay of Monterey, as smooth as a lake, crescented with 
the lofty Santa Cruz range, its pine-feathered ridges, the white 
sands upon which the milk-white foam creeps and crawls with 
a sinuous motion like some huge leviathan of the deep. The 
azure heavens flecked with clouds. The whole panorama is one 
which the all-souled artist loves to paint. Surely the " Naples 
of the New World " is the Bay of Monterey. On once again. 
We now enter a well shaded road, and catch charming glimpses 
here and there of the grand old Carmel range, and then suddenly 
there bursts upon our entranced sight a panorama of sky, ocean, 
and woods. The broad Pacific is only distinguishable from 
the heavens above it by its glittering sheeen as the sunlight plays 
upon its heaving breast. Anon, a little snowflake of foam dances 
on the molten surface as one billow, more playful than the rest, 



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47 



shakes its snowy crest, or the white sails of a ship appear, as 
swan-like she glides along the water. The weird forest, with its 
gaunt, ghost-like, black pines, moaning in harmony with the ceaseless 
roar of the waves as the breeze plays through the branches. Enter 
the forest, and as you pass through the flowery glades the fragrance 
of the shrubs and the songs of the birds fall pleasantly on the senses. 
Pass on, and crossing an open space of green turf, startling the rabbits 
and quail, we enter another grove; the sun-flecks through the moss- 
hung and bearded trees, creating a pleasant, subdued' light, such as is 
met with in the ancient minsters and Moorish alcazars of Europe. An 
involuntary thrill of delight runs through one, and from the store- 
house of the mind rushes a flood of memory of childhood's days with 
its ancient legend of enchanted groves and fairies. A few steps fur- 
ther, and the mystical grove is reached and crossed, and we gaze 
with rapture on the beauty of the sea. Surely God's world, beautiful 
as it is, can scarcely show fairer spots. Landward the imperturbable 
cypress grove, silent as the Pyramids, mystical as the Sphinx, the 
gnarled gray trunks supporting the golden green branches — oh, fit 
haunt for departed spirits, a Merlin, or a slumbering cot for a child of 
Cain ! The sierra of the Santa Lucia droop down into the sea, brown, 
and velvety, like some dust-begrimmed tome in the old 
at home, uninviting on the outside, but containing untold 
under its gloomy and unforbidding garb. The ill starred 
Moro lifts its dome-shaped head with threat- 
ening aspect, warning mariners of the dan- 
gers of a rock-bound coast. The craggy 
spurs jut out into the ocean, and the playful 
breakers as they dash upon them send aloft 
showers of spray white as driven snow, while 
the sunlight shines through the bright green 
billows as they curl and dash along in their 
impetuous, never-ending race. At our feet 
the silvery crystal sands are sprinkled with 
abalone shells, sea polished, and the varied 
colors of the sea mosses. Little pools teem 
with marine life, forming perfect aquaria, 
and the broad Pacific sweeps on in its 
uncontrollable course, bearing upon its 
bosom the wealth of empires. Cross the 
point through the woody glades toward Point Pinos, passing pretty 
bays with white crystal sands and shelving beaches. Here the billows 



barren, 
library 
riches 




Coast Scene near Point Lobos. 



48 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

charge in with a greater impetuosity, but well inland they break 
in a creamy ripple at the foot of the green-patched sand dunes. 
The black pines from which the point was named three hundred 
years ago, almost skirt the water. The mountains of Santa Cnu 
bound the view. The many-plumaged sea-birds flit by, and the 
sea lions dive under the foaming billows. Stay and watch the setting 
sun gild the trees and cast a golden haze upon the swelling waters, 
and then ride home through the moonlit groves, and if your trip to 
Cypress Point has not been a happy one blame yourself, for possibly 
you may have forgotten that — 

" He who joy would win, 
Must share it — happiness was born a twin." 

12. — Pebble Beach. — This beach is reached by a lovely cypress 
drive of one mile from Cypress Point. It is a small, pretty beach, 
and contains many pretty agates and water drops. 

13. — San Carlos (or Carmel) Mission. —At a distance of 
about four miles from Monterey is the ruins of the San Carlos (or 
Carmel) Mission. This Mission, one of the four established towards 
the end of the eighteenth century in Upper California, by Father 
Junipero Serra and his coadjutors in the work of civilization, was 
founded on the 3rd of June, 1770. This was more than two centuries 
after the first discovery of the country. These missions were sent out 
by the Church, acting in harmony with the wishes of the Spanish Gov- 
ernment, which had given instructions to the Viceroy of New Spain to 
establish presidios for the protection of the new settlements at points 
named, notably at San Diego and Monterey. Among the edifices 
erected in Upper California by the missionary fathers, that of San 
Carlos was one of the best in style and material. There were good 
ideas of architectural form in the head that planned this solid build- 
ing. The two great towers gave an air of dignity to the vast con- 
struction, and one sees, now that ruin has overtaken them, what it 
cannot be merely fanciful to suppose was intentional with the designer, 
that there is a prevailing slope of the walls from the main building 
from the ground to the roof, so that the general form of the church, 
seen vol d'oiseau, recalls that of a mound, the very shape of the 
Syrian Mount Carmel. It is a noble building, standing in a land- 
scape full of enchanting beauties. Inland, the eye looks across the 
broad leagues that once owed the beneficent sway of the priests, to 
the distant hills, vaporously blue. Here and there one of the Mon- 



ILLUSTRATED- HAND-BOOK. 49 

terey cypresses stamps the scenery with an astonishing likeness to 
points of view common in Italy, so strong is the resemblance between 
this tree and the Italian stone-pine, dear to the recollection of all 
travelers ; while the view seaward is one not to be surpassed on the 
Pacific Coast. Nowhere is the water of the Great Ocean more bril- 
liantly varied in hue ; sapphire, opal, emerald, cream-white and topaz, 
mother-of-pearl and crystal of every shade, play before the eye with 
every rush of the mighty wave into the carved and chiseled rocks and 
long rifts of the coast. Rarely is the aspect of nature more beautiful 
in loveliness, more sympathetic with the train of thought roused by 
the sight of a stately ruin, with falling towers, the stairs trodden by 
the priests through long years now crumbling away, the halls and 
the deserted chapel open to the sad sea-wind. In the church- 
yard of the Mission lie the remains of fifteen Governors of this 
Province and State, and the tomb , 
of the Apostle of California, Jun- 
ipero Serra, who died in 1784, still 
zealous in his great work. The 
lands surrounding the Carmel mis- 
sion were fertilized by a perennial 
stream of pure water, and thus 
offered advantages which the fathers 
were not slow to avail themselves 
of, for the cultivation of many kinds 0armel Missien Chutch - 

of vegetables and fruits. It was on the lands of this mission 
that the first potatoes grown in California, were raised, in 1826. 
The privilege of planting this esculent was given to the natives 
without limit, and they so improved their opportunities that the 
whalers, which made a regular stopping place of Monterey, supplied 
themselves with great quantities. The temporal welfare of the 
estate had reached a great development in the year 1825, when the 
fathers possessed 90,000 cattle, 50,000 sheep, 2,000 horses, 2,000 
calves, 370 yoke of oxen, with merchandise to the value of $50,000, 
and over $40,000 in silver. In 1835 the property, by a decree of 
the Mexican Congress, was converted to secular uses. To look 
back on the peaceful existence of this little community, during its 
sixty-five years of steady development from insignificant beginnings 
to the material success indicated by the figures given, is almost to 
lay one's hand on the middle ages and the conquest of barbaric 
races by the culture and the religion of the Roman world. The 
simple trust, the heroic faith and self-abnegation of these mission- 




50 SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY. 

aries are of a very different stamp from the qualities we too readily 
associate with the name of the pioneers. It is one thing to seek a 
far-off land for the sake of wealth denied to us by fortune in our 
native country; it is quite another to leave family and friends and 
old associations, and the sweet charities of familiar scenes, at the 
call of a religion which accepts no half-hearted devotion, and go to 
bury one's self forever in a remote corner of the world, among savages, 
uncouth in form and dull in mind, and there to toil in planting the 
seed, to which God alone can give the increase. These apostles of 
the Indians are so near us in time that we can almost touch their 
hands; but. in spirit they are as far from our self-satisfied, loud-bab- 
bling days as the east is from the west. If it be not too late, 
something should be done to save this noble ruin from utter de- 
struction. It is the greatest historical monument in the State, and 
every Californian, of whatever creed or no creed, should feel a per- 
sonal interest in its preservation. A trifling appropriation is all that 
is needed to save what the elements are destroying; and a generous 
State pride should need no second appeal in such a case. 

14. — Garmel River Road.— At the foot of Carmel Hill, three 
miles from town, the disciple of Isaak Walton will turn to the left and 
follow up the Carmel river, and he will find some fine trout fishing. 
At the mouth of the Carmel river, in the fall of the year, there are 
lots of salmon of good size that can be taken. The San Clemente, 
Garsus, and other creeks have an abundance of trout. 

15.— San Jose Creek. — At the crossing of the Carmel river you 
continue along the coast road, and after a drive of a mile you arrive 
at San Jose Creek, about eight miles from Monterey, where there are 
also splendid fishing grounds. 

16. — Point Lobos. — The first point to the right after crossing 
the San Jose creek is Point Lobos. 

17. — Road to Little and Big Sur Rivers. — Ten miles from 
the San Jose creek, over a bluff for the greater part of the way, the 
tourist comes across a succession of creeks, all of which contain 
trout. The road is bounded on one side by redwoods, and on the 
other by the ocean. Arriving at Serra Hill the tourist continues on 
for seven or eight miles, when the Little Sur river is reached, twenty- 
six miles from town. Here there is an abundance of as fine trout 
fishing as can be found in the State. It takes some time and trouble 
to get to this point. A good team, however, will take a party from 



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51 



Monterey to Little Sur in five hours ; thus, an afternoon may be 
spent in fishing, and the following morning. A good trouter, a short 
time ago, took ninety-five fish out of this river, from ten inches to 
a foot in length. It will be seen, therefore, that it will pay to make 
the trip and stand one night's camping out. Four miles further, or 
thirty miles from Monterey, is the Big Sur, one of the finest trouting 
streams along the coast. Mountain trout, weighing two pounds-, have 
been taken out of this stream in June and July. A mile or two from 
the road grizzlies may be found, if there are parties who think they 
have lost any. [This mot is old, but good.] 

18. — County Road to Salinas. 

19. — Southern Pacific Railroad, in operation daily each way 
between San Francisco and Monterey. 




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Summer Season, 



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(BROAD GAUGE) 




The New Watering Place of the Pacific Coast. 



-He LOW RATES *<- 

AND 
TO THE MANY 

CHARMING SUMMER RESORTS 

ON THE LINE OF THE 

Southern Pacific Railroad. 



6&: See following pages. 



SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. 



THE 

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. 

BEGS LEAVE TO INFORM ITS 

PATRONS and the TRAVELING PUBLIC 

THAT WITH THE OPENING OF THE 



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THE ELABORATE AND COSTLY IMPROVEMENTS WHICH ARE BEING CARRIED FORWARD AT 



WILL BE COMPLETED AND THE 



NEW AND MAGNIFICENT 

STRUCTURE TO BE KNOWN AS THE 

"Hotel Del Monte 

WILL BE THROWN OPEN FOR THE RECEPTION 
OF GUESTS. 



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SOUTHERN PACIFIC UAlUiOAD COMPANY. 



IN ANTICIPATION OF A 

LARGE NUMBER OF TOURISTS AND PLEASURE SEEKERS 

VISITING 




THIS SEASON, 

The S. P. R. R. Company will equip its Line with New and Elegant Coaches 

AND IN ADDITION TO THE 

MOZRHSTHsTG- TEAIN FZROIMI S^DT FRANCISCO 

TO WHICH WILL BE ATTACHED 

ELEGANT PARLOR CAE8 

WILL RUN AN 

AFTERNOON EXPRESS TRAIN 

ON EXCEEDINGLY FAST TIME. 



With the view of accommodating heads of families and such others as may wish to spend their Sundays in 

Monterey the Company will issue EXCURSION TICKETS at very low rates, 

good from Saturday until Monday, inclusive. 



Tickets trill also be issued from the Principal Stations on the Line of the 
Central Pacific Railroad. 



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THE CLIMATE AND HEALTHFULNESS OF MONTEREY. 

'HE weather at Monterey is not so warm either in summer or winter as in other parts of California 
further south, but there is an even temperature that can be found nowhere else. From January 
to December, year in and year out, there is no summer nor winter weather. Indeed, the weather 
at Monterey, from one year's end to another, partakes of that delightful interlude known in the East and South 
as ' ' Indian Summer. " The same balmy zephyrs breathe a delicious atmosphere all the year round, and sum- 
mer and winter, so-called, serenely face each other and exchange compliments. The following carefully pre- 
pared table presents the mean temperature of Monterey and many other health resorts and places throughout 
the world : 



PLACE. 



Jan. 



July. 



Diff. Latitude. 



PLACE. 



Jan. 


July. 


Diff. 


DEGS. 


DEGS. 


DEGS. 


31 


77 


46 


55 


82 


27 


46 


76 


30 


71 


77 


6 


60 


70 


10 


40 


73 


33 


46 


77 


31 


52 


63 


11 


58 


80 


22 


59 


77 


18 


50 


60 


10 



MONTEREY 

San Francisco 
Los Angeles 
Santa Barbara 
San Diego . . . 
Santa Monica 
Sacramento. . 
Stockton .... 

Vallejo 

Fort Yuma . . 
Cincinnati. . . 



52 
49 
55 
56 
57 
58 
45 
49 
4S 
56 
30 



DEGS. 

58 
57 
67 
66 
65 
65 
73 
72 
67 
92 
74 



DEGS. 

6 

8 

12 

10 

8 

7 

28 

23 

19 

36 

44 



)EG. MIN. 

36 36 

37 48 
34 04 
34 24 
32 41 
34 00 

38 34 

37 56 

38 05 
32 43 

39 06 



New York .... 
New Orleans . . 

Naples 

Honolulu 

Funchal 

Mentone 

Genoa 

City of Mexico 
Jacksonville . . 
St. Augustine . 
Santa Cruz. . . . 



)EG. MIN. 

40 37 

29 57 
40 52 
21 16 
32 38 

43 71 

44 24 
19 26 

30 50 
30 05 
37 00 



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T will be seen by the above table that Monterey has only one rival (Honolulu) in equability of temper- 
ature. It must be understood, however, that there is a good deal of hot, disagreeable weather on 
the islands, and a multiplicity of drawbacks which Monterey does not possess. There are seldom 
any high, cold winds at and around Monterey, and never any hot ones. There is more or less foggy weather 
in the spring months, as there is all along the coast and occasionally foggy mornings in summer. The latter, 
however, are really agreeable, as they infuse new life and freshness into tree and shrub and flower, and are not 
in the least detrimental in their influence upon human beings at that season of the year. 



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FOR A 



SUBURBAN RESIDENCE 

DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS 
The attention of BUSINESS MEN and FAMILIES is especially invited to 

THE MANY DELIGHTFUL PLACES 

ON THE LINK OF THK 

Southern Pacific Railroad 

.BETWEEN 

SAN FRANCISCO and SAN JOSE. 



coivn3ynTJT^.Tioisr rates 



SEE THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE. 



BETWEEN 


LOCAL. 


COMMUTATION. 


SAN FRANCISCO 

AND 


Single 

Trip 

Ticket. 


Round 
Trip 

Ticket. 


10 Ride 
Family 

Ticket 

Limited to 
1 month. 


30 Ride 
Family 
Ticket 

Limited to 
3 months. 


Individual 
Ticket 

for 
Calendar 
Month. 


Half- 
Yearly 
Ticket. 

FIRST SIX 
MONTHS. 


Half- 
Yearly 
Ticket. 

SECOND SIX 

MONTHS. 


YEARLY 
TICKET. 


Bernal 


.25 

.25 

.25 

.40 

.50 

.60 

.70 

.75 

.90 

1.00 

1.10 

1.15 

1.25 

1.40 

1.55 

1.65 

1.75 


.40 

.40 

.40 

.70 

.90 

1.10 

1.25 

1.35 

1.65 

1.85 

2.00 

2.10 

2.25 

2.55 

2.85 

3.05 

3.25 


2.00 

2.00 

2.00 

3.00 

4.00 

5.00 

5.75 

6.25 

7.50 

8.50 

9.25 

9.75 

10.50 

11.75 

13.25 

14.25 

15.00 


4.50 
5.00 
5.00 
8.00 
10.50 
12.75 
14.50 
16.00 
19.00 
21.50 
23.25 
24.00 
26.25 
29.50 
33.00 
35.50 
37.50 


3.00 

4.00 

5.00 

6.00 

7.00 

8.00 

8.50 

9.00 

10.00 

11.50 

12.50 

13.00 

14.00 

16.00 

17.50 

19.00 

20.00 


16.00 
21.50 
27.00 
32.50 
38.00 
43.00 
46.00 
48.50 
54.00 
57.50 
62.50 
65.00 
70.00 
80.00 
87.50 
95.00 
100.00 


15.00 
20.50 
25.50 
30.50 
36.00 
41.00 
43.50 
46.00 
51.00 
53.50 
58.00 
60.50 
65.00 
74.50 
81.50 
88.50 
93.00 


30.00 


San Miguel 

Colma 


40.00 
50.00 


Baden 


60.00 


San Bruno 

Millbrae., 

Oak Grove 

San Mateo 

Belmont 


70.00 
80.00 
85.00 
90.00 
100.00 


Redwood 

Fair Oaks 

Menlo Park 

Mayiteld 

Mountain View. . 

Lawrences 

Santa Clara 

San Jose 


105.00 
112.50 
115.00 
125.00 
145.00 
157.50 
170.00 
180.00 



Also " PACKAGE " Trip Tickets (fqr tlie use of Families and Guests.) 



COMMUTATION TICKETS ARE 

Issued only from the General Office of the Company, 

( Room 33 ) 
CORNER FOURTH AND TOWNSEND STREETS, 

SAN FRANCISCO. 



SPEED, SAFETY, COMFORT. 



THE SANTA CRUZ RAILROAD 

THE FAVORITE ROUTE 

TO THAT 

CELEBRATED WATERING PLACE 

A IT A CRUZ 

IS BY THE 

Southern Pacific 

(BROAD GAUGE) 

—AND— 

Santa Cru£ Railroads. 



FAST TRAINS of the SANTA CRUZ RAILROAD 

CONNECT DAIEY at PAJARO with A.JLJL, TRAINS OF THE 
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. 



LEAVING PAJARO 

The Trains pass through 

WATSON VI LLE and the fertile PAJARO VALLEY, 

Thence winding through the San Andreas Hills, and skirting along the Shore of 
THE BAY OF MONTEREY, 

PICTURESQUE APTOS 

is reached, continuing thence westward in view of the Bay on one side, and 

FOREST CROWNED HILLS 

On the other, the cars stop at 

SOQUEL 

where the great Camp of the Pacific Coast, 

oj^Dyni 3 CAPITOLA 

lies stretched along the Bay. Starting again 

THE MAJESTIC PACIFIC OCEAN 

bursts into view, and passing along the Beach which is crowded with bathers and pleasure seekers, 

the train enters 

THE CITY OF SA NTA CRUZ. 
fliiVil VICKfiYS 

CAN BE OBTAINED AT ALL THE PRINCIPAL STATIONS AT GREATLY REDUCED RATES 

OF THE 

Central Pacific ii Southern Pacific Railroads. 



-- C 1FIC^ 4/ ^— 




steamship mmKEwirriffmm COMPANY. 



THE STEAMSHIPS OF THIS COMPANY 

Will sail from San Francisco, during the year 1880, as follows: 
From Wharf, corner of First and Brannan Streets, 

HOUR OF DEPARTURE, 12 NOON, 

FOR YOKOHAMA AND HONG KONG 

CITY OF TOKIO, CITY OF PEKING, 

July 1st. August 1st. 

Connecting at Yokohama with steamers 
of the MITSU BISHI CO. for 

Hiogo, Nagasaki and Shanghae. 



For Sydney and Auckland, 

VIA HONOLULU. 

July 5, August 2, August 30, September 27, 
October 25, November 22. December 20, 



Round the World Trip, ria >'ew Zealand and Australia, $650. Tickets also issued from San 
Francisco to New York via New Zealand and Australia. 



FOR NEW YORK, via PANAMA, 

On 3th and 20th ------ of every month. 

Taking Passengers and Freight for MEXICAN, CENTRAL AMERICAN and SOUTH AMERICAN Ports; 
for HAVANA and all WEST INDIA Ports ; for LIVERPOOL, LONDON and SOUTHAMPTON ; for ST. 
NAZARIE, and for HAMBURG, BREMEN and ANTWERP. 

FOR 



VICTORIA, B. O-, 

PORT TOWNSEND, SEATTLE AND TACOMA, 

Connecting at Tacoma with Northern Pacific Railroad for Portland, Oregon, and at Seattle 
with local Steamers for Skagit River and Mines, . 

On 10th, 20th, and 30th of every month. ' 

WILLIAMS, D1MOND & CO., Cen. Agts 



BRAVERMAN & LEVY, 

Importers and Manufacturing Jewelers, 
119 MONTGOMERY STREET, 

SAN FRANCISCO, 

OFFER A FULL ASSORTMENT OF FINE DIAMONDS, 
WATCHES, JEWELRY, CALIFORNIA GOLD 
QUARTZ WORK, and an attk active line of STER- 
LING SILVER WARE, and TRAVELING CLOCKS. 

All their Goods Marked in Plain Figures at the very 
Lowest Prices. 

H. S. CROCKER & CO. 
IMPORTING STATIONERS, 

AND 

COUNTING-HOUSE PRINTERS, 

AGENTS FOR 

Shaw & Go's Blank Books and Memorandums, Brown's 

Ledger Papers, Leroy W. Fairchild's Gold Pens and 

Pencils, National Safety Paper, Imperial Parchment 

Writing 1 Papers, Chelmsford Writing Papers, 

Arnold's Inks, Stephen's Inks, Dickson's 

Carmine, David's Carmine & Mucilage, 

Crown Brand Mucilage, Gillott's 

Pens, Esterbrook's Pens, 

Barnett's Zinc and Platina Pens, Dixon's Pencils, etc., etc. 

SAN FRANCISCO 1 SACRAMENTO. 



OCCIDENTAL HOTEL 



SA.TST FRANCISCO. 



HEADQUARTERS ARMY AND NAVY. 



Terms, - - - $3.00 per day with Board. 

Rooms, without Board, - $1.00 per day and upwards. 

Parlors and Rooms, with Bath attached, Extra. 

CHAS. L. WETHERBEE, Manager. 




SLAVEN'S YOSEMITE COLOGNE. 

MADE FROM CALIFORNIA FLOWERS. 

Sweet, Fragrant and Refreshing. Trial Size, 25 Cents. 



ITESHER & OO. 




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HATTERS, 




9 Montgomery St., 



San Francisco. 



THE MOST COMPLETE ESTABLISHMENT IN THE STATE 



LEBENBAUM & CO., 

121 Post Street, 

LEBENBAUM & CO., 

529 & 531 Kearny Street, 

LEBENBAUM & GOLDBERG, 

1447 and 1449 Polk Street, 
SAN FRANCISCO. 

The Leading G-ROCEES, TEA and WINE Merchants 

OF THE PACIFIC COAST, 

Import direct in every possible case, thus securing middle men's profits. 

The finest Teas direct from the Plantations in China and Japan, specially picked from the 
first crops. 

Their genuine Garden Leaf Japan Tea put up in 5, 10 and 50 lb. boxes is the finest Japaa 
Tea in the world, and their English Breakfast, Souchong, Congou, Oolong and Mandarin Mix- 
tures are all of the finest possible selections. 

Their enormous Cellars are stocked with Champagnes of all the best Brands, Burgundies, 
Ehine Wines, Sauternes, Ports, Sherries, Clarets, Madeira, Malaga, Muscatel, Angelica, etc. , 
etc., by the Gallon, Case or Bottle, and their Brandies and Whiskies, old and genuine, are sold 
in the same way. 

Travelers and Tourists will find in any of their stores an enormously varied and most 
.select stock of high class LUNCH GOODS such as 

BONED CHICKEN, 

BONED TURKEY, 

Whole Boned Turkey Truffled, 

Whole Boned Chicken Truffled, 

Lunch Hams, Lunch Tongues, Cooked Corned Beef, Whole Cooked Ham, 

Boneless; Devilled Ham, Chicken, Turkey and Tongue; Sardines, 

Jardellas, Anchovies in Oil, Anchovies in Salt, Sardines in 

Mustard, Sardines Spiced, Crosse & Blackwell's Pickles 

all kinds, Windsor Manor Pickles of all kinds, 

Jams, Jellies and Preserves, all kinds of 

Pates, a large selection of Lunch 

Baskets always on hand. 



Roquefort, Stilton, Cheshire and Cheddar Cheese, 

Neufchatel and Fromage de Brie. 



COFFEES, 

All of their own direct importation, Ground and Roasted on the premises 

PURITY GUARANTEED. 



VISITS OF INSPECTION are respectfully solicited from all families in search of superior 
goods at moderate prices. Goods will be shown and sample quantities supplied with great 
pleasure. 



BRADLEY & RULOFSON 

SAN FRANCISCO, 

Artistic Portraits 

AND 

HIGH -CLASS PHOTOGRAPHY 



IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. 



Gold Medals, Vienna, Philadelphia and San Francisco. 



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iliflUil & WATBY, 



SCIENTIFIC 



OPTICIANS, 



#8? 

KEARNY^ STREET, 

Bet. Pine and California, 
SAN FRANICISCO. 

The only Opticians on this Coast who make Spectacle Lenses to order. 




GEO. C. SHREVE & CO. 



DEALERS IN 



WATCHES, 

DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, 

CLOCKS, OPERA GLASSES, ETC. 

110 Montgomery St., San Francisco. 

Have the Largest and Finest Stock of Goods in their line on the 

Pacific Coast. They have but One Price, and all goods 

are Marked in Plain Figures. 



MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. 



THE a-E3ST"0"I3STE 

Singer New Family Sewing Machine. 




The Strongest, 

The Simplest, 

The Most Durable 

Sewing Machine 

ever yet 

constructed. 



The popular demand for the GENUINE SINGER in 1879 exceeded that of any previous 
year during the Quarter of a Century in which this " Old Reliable " Machine has been before 
the public. 

In 1878 we sold 366,422 Machines. 

In 1879 we sold 431,167 Machines. 

Excess over any previous year, - 74,735 Machines. 



REMEMBER 

That every REAL 
Singer Sewing Ma- 
chine has this Trade 
Mark cast into the 
Iron Stand and em- 
bedded in the arm 
of the Machine. 




Represented 

by 500 

Subordinate Offices 
in the United States 
and Canada, and 
3,000 Offices in the 
Old World and 
South America. 



The Singer Manufacturing Company 



Principal Office, 34 Union Square, New York. 

Genekal Agency for the Pacific Coast, 
No. 118 Sutter Street, - San Francisco. 

For the accommodation of the public, we have a Branch Office in every large city, and an 
authorized agent for the sale of our Machines in every County 
on the Pacific Coast. 
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OALIFOENIA 



THE NEWPORT OF THE PACIFIC. 



Pacific Ocean House 



The principal hotel in the city, containing ioo rooms, with all modern 
improvements, also extensive grounds containing swings and croquet 
grounds for the accommodation of guests. Two lines of street cars 
pass the door for the bathing beach. Sportsmen will find good hunt- 
ing and fishing. Trout and Quail N in abundance. Coach and Car- 
riages attend all steamers and trains to convey passengers to the 
hotel free of charge. 

E. J. SWIFT, Proprietor. 




Eiverside House, 

SANTA CKUZ, CAL. 
FRED BARSON, Proprietor, 

Charmingly situated on the East bank of the River, in its own 

grounds of 30 acres, midway between the Post Office 

and Bathing Beach, within a few minutes 

easy walk of both. 



Fred Barson supplies his guests with his own well-appointed 
carriages and horses at moderate charges ; also, pleasure boats and 
fishing free ; nine acres orchard ; extensive archery and croquet 
grounds, shuffle-boards, swings, etc. Abundance of fruit and berries, 
and vegetables of all kinds grown on the premises, also poultry, eggs, 
milk, butter, etc. 

First-class furniture and appointments, and all good large cheer- 
ful rooms. 

Riverside carriages meet all trains and steamers, carrying arriving 
and departing guests free of charge. 

. Families seeking a really pleasant seaside home for long or short 
period, please write for tariff, etc. 



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PACIFIC AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



P. V. WILKIN S, Proprietor. 



A First-Class Family Hotel and Boarding House, well situated on main 

street leading to the Bathing Beach; one Block from Post Office, 

Express and Telegraph Offices; Garden back and front. 

Street Cars pass every few minutes. 



gSg'A Coach will carry Passengers from the Cars and Steamers to the House free of charge. 



M. YOUNG-, 



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S^HSTT-A. OETJZ 



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Begs to inform the people of this and adjacent Counties that he MANUFACTURES, 
WHOLESALES AND RETAILS 



in all its branches, having been engaged in the business for many years. 



WEDDING O^TtJG TO ORDER. 



ICE CREAM IN VARIETY. 



Mm, 



WlfflM&WHBk iM#ffct 



Manufacturer of and Dealer in best Quality of 

iraesst Saddles, Bridle 

WHIPS, BLANKETS, 

Spurs, Collars/ Brushes, Etc. 



SANTA CRUZ. 



Near Walnut Avenue, 



THE POPE HOUSE 

AND COTTAGES, 

THE LEADING FAMILY HOTEL OF SANTA CRUZ, 

MISSION STREET. 

Highest and Healthiest Position in Town. 



Regular Street Car service from the door to the Bathing Beach. 

Special arrangements with families for Cottages and Suites, at prices to suit the times. 



H. W. POPE, 



Proprietor. 



W. H. HOBBS, 




BOOKS I STATIONERY 

Two Doors below the Pacific Ocean House, 
SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



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DEALER IN 



Hardware, Machinists' Goods 

AND 

Agricultural Implements, 

BERNHEIM'S BLOCK, PACIFIC AVENUE, 

SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



The Courier Loeal Item, 



A NEWSPAPER 

Devoted to the best interests of Santa Cruz County. 



PUBLISHES DURING THE SEASON A COMPLETE 

LIST OF VISITORS. 



Specimen Copies Gratis on Application. 



OFFICE IN ELY'S BLOCK, ABOVE POST OFFICE, 
SANTA CBVZ. 

PICNIC LUNCHEONS # DINNERS 

IN THE 

BEST STYLE AND AT MODERATE PRICES 

AT THE 

Big*. Trees -Hotel, 

SANTA CRUZ. 

Large Dancing Platform, > Most Romantic Groves, 

Railroad Station in the Grounds, 

First -Class Cookery, 

CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. 



Quincy Hall Seminary, 

SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 
Mrs. JOHN L. GAMBLE, - - Principal. 



TTJT7 well-known healthfulness of Santa Cruz, its admirable location, easy of access 
Il-Lv both by land and sea, renders it a desirable place for the establishment of a 
Seminary for Young Ladies and Children. 
The Course of Instruction embraces all the branches of a thorough English education and 
"Kindergarten" for the younger pupils. 

THE MODERN LANGUAGES. 

MUSIC : Vocal and Instrumental. 

UNUSUAL ADVANTAGES ARE ALSO OFFERED 

for acquiring proficiency in Pencil and Crayon Drawing, Pastel, Water Colors and 
Oil Painting. 



At Quincy Hall special attention is given to the cultivation of the manners as well as the 
minds of the scholars. The games and exercises are superintended by the teachers, and the 
laws of health carefully observed. 

The number of boarding pupils s limited to fifteen. 

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LAKE MAKINA 

( On the Beach one mile South of Santa Cruz ) 

Damping Ground, Driving Park and Bathing Beach. 

S. A. HALL, Lessee, 

for many years Lessee of CAMP CAPITOLA, 

Boating, Bathing, Fishing, Hunting, Horseback Riding, Rifle Shooting, Archery, Etc. 

Beach Drive two miles. Circular Driving Track one mile. 



TENTS AND COTTAGES, 

FURNISHED or UNFURNISHED, with or without First-Class 

FARM HOUSE BOARD. 



Stabling and Board for Fifty Horses. Pleasure Boats for 
Hire with or without Experienced Boatmen. 



ALL TERMS MODERATE. 

See illustration on opposite page. 



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iEtna Insurance Co. of Hartford, 

The Leading American Fire Ins. Co. in Business, Capital and Surplus. 




Incorporated, tMm^SX^c^SStSS^^' Year 1819 



Cash Assets, January 1, 1880, . . $7,078,224.49 
Cash Capital, January 1, 1880, . . 3,000,000.00 

Pacific Branch Office: : : 311 California Street. 



HENRY MEYRICK, GEO. C. BOARDMAN, 

Agent, Santa Cruz. General Agent. 

Aggregate Assets, $40,607,942. 



Imperial Fire Insurance Co, of London, 
London Assurance Corporation of London, 
Northern Assurance Corporation of London, 
Queen Insurance Company of Liverpool, 



W. LANE BOOKER, Agent and Attorney. 

EOB'T DICKSON, Manager. 

317 California Street , San Francisco, 



Agents at Santa Cruz, MEYRICK & CO., 

Real Estate Exchange & Mart. 



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THIS POPULAR PRIVATE HOTEL AND 

J^ BOARDING HOUSE WITH COTTAGES stands close to the Bathing Beach, 40 feet 
above tide mark, in its own well-wooded grounds of six acres handsomely laid out and ex- 
tending to the river's edge, affording 

Rare Facilities for Boating, Fishing and Bathing. 
GUESTS TAKEN FREE 

To and from OCEAN VILLA by Special Carriages meeting Cars and Steamers. 



THE LOCATION OF OCEAN VILLA IS UNEQUALLED, and must strike 
the visitor arriving by water : it stands on the right 
. entering the Harbor. 

GEO. H. BLISS, Proprietor, 
p. o. Box 106. SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



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J. F. CHRISTAL, 

Druggist and Apothecary, 

ITearlt Opposite Post Oitice, 
importer of 

PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES, 

PERFUMERY AND TOILET ARTICLES, 

DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES of all Kinds, Etc., 



N. B.— Compounding Physicians' Prescriptions a Specialty. 



FURNISHED 1 UNFURNISHED HOUSES 

Farms, Ranches, Vineyards and Timber Lands, 
FOR RENT AND SALE 

AT THE REAL ESTATE 

EXCHANGE & MART, 




SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



REAL ESTATE 

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 

BOUGHT, SOLD and EXCHANGED. 



Descriptive Lists Free by Mail. 



REFERENCES IN LONDON, Eng., AND SAN FRANCISCO. 



MEYRICK & CO., Proprietors. 

Representing 

Imperial, London, Northern, and Queen Insurance Co's, 

Assets, $38,000,000. 

^Etna Insurance Co. of Hartford, 

Assets, $7,078,224, 



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POSV 'OVITOB9 

UNDER THE TOWN CLOCK 



The CITY STABLES, 



SCOTT & JONES 



PACIFIC AYE., 




SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



All orders for Carriages, Buggies, Rockaways and Picnic Wagons 
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 



1111 I. & CABBU S. MM 

SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



»ss mm wmm mmm 

IN GREAT VARIETY AND MADE TO ORDER. 



Local Views and Native Flowers Painted on Cards, 
Shells, etc., a Specialty. 



■CABINET SIZE. IN PACKAGES, CONTAINING CHOICE SPECIMENS OF SANTA CRUZ 
ALG/E CORRECTLY NAMED. 



H. C. CHACE, 



THE LEADING DEALER IN 



lion's and i@ji' J Fine Clothing, 

FURNISHING GOODS, 

Trunks & Valises, and Tobacco, 
PACIFIC AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



DENTIST. 

F. W. BUSSj D. D. S. 

All Branches of Dentistry performed skillfully. Satisfaction guaranteed. 

Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas) and other anaesthetics 

administered for painless extraction 

of teeth. 

OFFICE: BEENHEIM'8 BLOCK:, 

Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, Cal. 

Office Hours : 8 a.m. to 12 m,, 1 p. m. to 5.30 P. M. 




TOURISTS 

and others will always find the largest 
and best selected stock of 

Watches, Biamo&cfs 



JEWELRY 

-AT — 



WILLIAM EFFEY'S 

PIONEER JEWELRY STORE, 

212 PACIFIC AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



A BEAUTIFUL WOODLAND SUMMER RESORT. 



GLENWOOD MAGNETIC SPRINGS 

HOTEL and COTTAGES. 

Nine miles north of Santa Cruz, three miles from Glenwood Station on South Pacific Nar- 
row Gauge Railroad ; located in the warm belt, 1,300 feet above sea level, good climate at all 
seasons. 

The waters of this Spring are highly magnetic and have quite a reputation in cases of 
rheumatism, liver, kidney and nervous diseases, insomnia and general debility. 

MAGNETIC BATHS (hot and cold) ALWAYS READY. 

Every desirable facility and accommodation for visitors. Good Saddle 

Horses, Splendid Views, Romantic Scenery, and excellent 

Fishing- and Gunning* in the immediate neighborhood. 

The Hotel Carriages meet all trains. 



OSCAR L. GORDON, 



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OFFICE, DIE I^JVI^TIEIR'S BUILDING, 



PACIFIC AVENUE, 



SANTA CRUZ. 



OFFICE HOURS : 8 A. M. to 12 M.,1to6P. M. 



Anaesthetics carefully administered for painless extraction of 
Teeth and other operations in Dental Surgery. 



JACOB GUNDLACH. 



CHAS. BUNDSCHU. 



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FINE OLD 

TABLEWINES 



RHINE FARM, 



*t.&CHnr/or 4f QQ. *'< CUM ST. 



Vineyards, Sonoma, Cal. 
Depot, cor. Market & Second Sts., San Francisco. 



BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE 

In SANTA CBUZ and SOQUEL, 

AT FROM $50 TO $1,000. 

TERMS : — 10 per cent, cash, the balance in nine annual installments with interest at 8 per 
cent, per annum, payable annually, in advance. 



LIFE INSURANCE CLAUSE. 

In ease of death, all matured installments having been paid, the heirs of the purchaser 
are entitled to a conveyance without further payment. 
For Maps and particulars apply to 

F. A. HIHN, Santa Cruz. 




Camp Capitola, near Soquel, Santa Cruz Co., Cal. 

A FAVORITE WATERING-PLACE 
On the Line of the Santa Cruz Railroad. 



GOOD SEA BATHING. 

CAMPING GROUND OR COTTAGES TO LET, 

With or without Board. 

EVANS & JONES, Soquel. 



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DEALERS IN 



GENERAL MERCHANDISE, 

PACIFIC AVENUE, 

OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, 

The Oldest, Largest, and Most Reliable Mercantile 
Establishment in Santa Cruz. 

fine liquors and first-class wines a specialty. 



FUN AMONG THE BREAKERS. 




IilBB&AXniY'S 

Original Bathing Establishment 

STILL FURTHER IMPROVED AND ENLARGED THIS SEASON. 



Hot, Cold and Tepid Shower and Hip Baths, Sunny Dressing Rooms, 

Latest Styles in Costumes, Spring Board, Safety Line 

attached to Buoys, Etc. 

Street Cars pass every few minutes. 




E UV1 BOOK STOR 



NEARLY OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. 



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ALL THE STANDARD AND LATE PUBLICATIONS. 



A- FINE VAEIETY OF 

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Sea Mosses and Ferns arranged in Novel Styles. 




S.H.BAILEY 



DEALER IN 



CLOCKS, 

JEWELRY, 

AND 

SILVERWARE, 



PACIFIC AVE3NTTJE, 
Opposite Court House, SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



U. S. Examining Surgeon for Pensions. 



UAV1I A IfBIl, 



STOVES 



AND 




HARDWARE 

Water Pipe, 



TINWARE, 

Gi-^S IFITTIICTGh, 

PACIFIC AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ. 




JOSEPH LYNAM, 

LADIES' 

AND 

GENTLEMEN'S 

Boot & Shoemaker 

PACIFIC AVE., 
SANTA CRUZ, 



RIGHT OPPOSITE THE COVERED BRIDGE. 



FIRST CLASS WORK MADE TO ORDER. REPAIRS NEATLY DONE AND PROMPTLY 

ATTENDED TO. 



J. T. HAZELS, 




PACIFIC AVENUE, 
Next Door to Ocean House, SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED. 



SANTA GRUZ TRANSFER GO. 




FREIGHT AND BAGGAGE 

Delivered to all Parts of Santa Cruz — Promptly Delivered to Address 

or Shipped to Destination. 



Mark care Daniels' S. C. Transfer Co., or send orders to the 
OFFICE : Pacific Avenue, opp. Locust Street, 

SANTA CRUZ. 



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Tyler Street, Monterey. 

R. 0. WORMS, Proprietor. 

Conducted on the European and American Plans, 

AND THE LEADING HOUSE IN MONTEREY. 

Has been newly fitted up for the Season in FIRST-CLASS STYLE. 



All the Rooms are hard-finished, well ventilated, and newly furnished. 
Handsome Garden Grounds with Flowers, Shrubbery, Savings, etc. ; also, a 

CROQUET GROUND. 

The "ST. CHARLES " will be found to possess superior advantages in many respects. 



Charges $2.00 per Day; $12.00 per Week. 



Ticket Agency for the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. 

French Restaurant and Hotel 

Paris Style, 

By J. BARBIERI, 

who has constructed an OYSTER RESERVOIR on Santa Cruz Beach 

Securing constant supply of 

EASTERN AND CALIFORNIA OYSTERS. 



FROGS AND TERRAPIN in various Styles. 



FRENCH DINNERS at fixed prices or a la carte. 



Private Dining Rooms for Families up stairs. 
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Private Dining Rooms on ground Floor. 
Public and Private Dinners and Ball Suppers Supplied in First-Class 
Style at the lowest rates. 

ANTHONY'S BLOCK, SANTA CRUZ. 



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MONTEREY, C^JL 





WAS OPENED FOR THE RECEPTION OF GUESTS 

On Thursday, June 3rd I88O. 



/ | \HE HOTEL DEL MONTE" is one of the most elegant watering-place 
establishments in the world, and is handsomely furnished throughout, and 
provided with all modern improvements, such as hot and cold water, gas, 

etc., etc. It is picturesquely situated in a grove of 106 acres of oak, pine, 

spruce and cypress trees, and is within a quarter of a mile of the beach, which is 

unrivalled for bathing purposes. 

' The Hotel is under the management of Mr. George Schonewald, for 

many years past the well-known and successful manager of the Lick House. 




On page 42 of this handbook will be found a description of the 
"Hotel del Monte" and surroundings. 




The Christian Seaside Resort. 

Season of 1880. 



Pacific Grove, 

MONTEREY, 

SITUATED on the beantiful Bay of Monterey, one and a half miles from the ancient Capital 
of the State. Open for Visitors, Tourists and Campers from May 20th till about the end of 
September. As a healthful place of resort it is not surpassed by any locality in the State. 
For beauty of location it cannot be excelled, its magnificent Pine Grove affording pleasant 
shade and extending to the water's edge. For all forms of Bronchial or Throat Affections, it is 
a well recognized fact that a residence in Pine Groves is peculiarly beneficial. There are also in 
the Grove 

MINERAL WATERS 

of the highest excellence, and reference can be given to persons well known throughout the 
State, as to the advantages to be derived from their use. A careful analysis has proved them 
to be almost identical with the world-renowned waters of Cheltenham, England. 

Good Sea-Bathing and Boating Facilities. First-class accommodations at reasonable prices. 
COTTAGES, TENTS (with floors and furniture) and ROOMS of various dimensions, to rent. 
Carriages for the Grove connect with Trains and Steamers. Beautiful drives to places of great 
interest, such as Cypiess Point, Carm el Mission, Point Lobos, etc., in the vicinity. 



SPECIAL ROUND- TRIP TICKETS 

(Good from May 20th to Sept. 30th) 
Can be obtained at any of the Stations on the Lines of the 



Central Pacific, Southern Pacific 

AND 

California Pacific 



RAILROADS 

AT 



100 lbs. Baggage allowed on each Full Ticket and 50 lbs. on each Half Ticket. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. Baggage will be checked and Canvas Tents way-billed through 
to Monterey from all Stations on the Line of the Central Pacific (via San Jose) and the 
Southern Pacific Railroads. £W From Stations on the California Pacific Railroad (via 
San Francisco), Baggage will be checked and Tents way-billed to San Francisco only, and must 
there be re-checked over the S. P. R. R. to Monterey. 

&W In addition to checking 100 lbs. Baggage on each Full Ticket and way-billing Canvas 
Tents, free of charge, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company will also way-bill, free of 
charge, "Camp Equipage," — consisting of Tent Poles, Table, Portable Stove, Stools, 
Chairs, Cooking Utensils. Bedstead and bedding, etc. Provisions of any kind do not 
come under this head and will not he received in Baggage Cars. 

For further information address 

Manager "P. G. R. ASSOC'N," 

Monterey, Cal 



MANUEL WOLTER'S 

Livery, Sale and Feed Stable 



Alvarado Street, 




opp. Post Office, 



MONTEREY. 

EXCURSION PARTIES accommodated at all Hours. 



Orders by Telegraph promptly attended to. 



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OCEAN HOUSE, 

MONTEREY, CAL. 



Private and Transient Boarding, 



MRS. MILTON LITTLE. 



RANDOLPH & CO. 




JEWELERS, 

Nos. 101 and 103 Montgomery St., corner Sutter, 

SAJS FRANCISCO, CAL. 







P. C. S. S. Co's Steamship "State of California." 



PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. 

GOODALL, PERKINS & CO., General Acts. 
No. 10 Market Street, San Francisco. 



The Splendid Steamers of this Company arrive at and leave 

SANTA CRUZ® MONTEREY 

FEOM AJra TO SAX FEAXCISCO 

SEMI -WEEKLY. 

This is the cheapest and most comfortable route. Magnificent views of the Golden 

Gate and Coast Scenery. Rates of Fare, which include Meals and Sleeping 

Accommodation, are lower by this than by any other route. 



STEAMERS LEAVE SANTA CRUZ 

FOR ALL 

Points in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, Etc., Every Week. 



Steamers leave (from Broadway Wharf) San Francisco, Semi-Weekly, for all Points 
in Northern California, Oregon, Washington Teritory and British Columbia. 



The Steamers of this Line are FIRST- CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT, sail punctually, and passengers can 
rely on courteous treatment. 

GEO. H. SAGAR, Local Agent, 

Office at Steamship Wharf, Santa Cniz. 




PRICE 85 CENTS. 



SiWERANOSCO ITEWS PUBLISHING GOo 

AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. 

SArnPHANCISCO o b ^ oth ^ h C0NJEn 

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